The Galing Pook Committee is conducting a site validation on the Iloilo Provincial Government’s program “Puso Para sa Puso - Movement for Healthy Hearts Towards MoRProGRes Iloilo” on September 2 to 3, 2024.
The Galing Pook team is led by Former DILG Undersecretary Austere Panadero and Prof. Ruben Gamala of the University of the Philippines Visayas.
Iloilo’s entry to the Galing Pook Award involves the provincial government’s implementation of the World Health Organization’s Healthy Hearts Program which led to the reduction of risks of Ilonggos against cardiovascular diseases through hypertension control. The province tapped and capacitated the Barangay Health Workers in conducting simple blood pressure tests.
Iloilo is the first LGU to implement the Healthy Hearts Program in the Philippines, with Phase I commencing in 2018 and Phase II which covered the pilot implementation starting in 2021. The Phase III was launched in June 2023.
Moreover, Iloilo also hosted the first World Heart Day 2022 celebration in the country last Sept. 29, 2022, following its successful implementation of the Healthy Hearts Program.
The province of Iloilo is vying for its second Galing Pook Award.
Its Zero to Limpyo Iloilo: Movement for a Province-wide ZOD program was one of the 10 awardees of the 2023 Galing Pook Awards conferred last October 12, 2023.
(Capitol News)
