Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire says people will feel the presence of the Department of Health at the local level in the government's new strategy against COVID-19. FULL STORY:
In the government's new strategy against COVID-19, people will feel the presence of the Department of Health at the local level, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said on Wednesday, August 5.
"What would be different for this new strategy that we’re now going to employ would be we’re going on the ground; we’re going to go at the [level of the] local government units , at the local levels where we would want people to feel that DOH is there," she said. In her presentation, Vergeire said that the DOH and the Department of the Interior and Local Government will do"house-to-house case finding."Vergeire said the goal of the new strategy is for LGUs to be"more empowered" so they can be more capable of responding to the health crisis.
To effectively curb the spread of the virus in clusters of infections, Vergeire said the government will implement the CODE protocol.
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