An article, relating the DAP (budget from the government) to the RN Heals program..i really had no idea at first, i had to call my dad to ask something about DAP.. Thanks to him he is just a call away..haha (Happy Father's Day!) so here it goes..i just want to share it because i was so stressed i was only given 15 minutes to finish it. ASAP is a word i often hear and read from messages sent to me nowadays... o_O stay cool and keep calm everyone..=)
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The Disbursement Acceleration
Program (DAP) encompasses the stimulus package under the Aquino administration
designed to fast track public spending and pushes economic growth. This covers
high impact budgetary programs and projects which will be augmented out of the
savings generated during the year and additional revenue sources.
The Department of Health (DOH)
aligned with the goal of Kalusugan Pangkalahatan in its aim to achieve
development and poverty reduction, rapid increase in the Philhealth enrollment,
improved access to quality hospitals and health care facilities and attainment
of health related Millenium Development Goals, was a beneficiary of the DAP
program that paved way for health programs specifically, the RN HEALS project.
Anent to this, the Project
Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement and Local Service and Rural Health
Midwives Placement last year 2012 is a tangible evidence to support local
health systems development to achieve the DOH thrusts of Universal Health Care.
The DOH Deployment program deploys doctors, nurses and midwives to DOH
hospitals and communities. This is in collaboration with the Department of
Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG), Professional Regulatory Commission – Board of Nursing
(PRC-BON) and Philippine Nurses Association (PNA). It is designed to create a
pool of registered nurses with enhanced clinical and public health management
competencies.
The Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial
Hospital (DJNRMH) established in 1940, being strategically located, is now considered
as the premier hospital for leprosy patients in Central Luzon, and also one of
the best government owned and operated secondary general health care facility
in the northern part of Metropolitan Manila after Republic Act 9420 was passed
April 10, 2007, which converted the 200 beds of the sanitarium to general
health services, the hospital then operating with a dual mandate. Being as
such, the hospital must continue to upgrade its facilities and enhance the
capability of its personnel to meet the increasing demand for quality health
care in the area.
In 2012, DOH deployed 52 RN Heals
that helped the hospital in delivering quality healthcare services; implement enhanced
nursing workforce, improve current nurse to patient ratio in accordance to DOH
standard staffing patterns and more importantly, support the DOH in the
attainment of Universal Healthcare or Kalusugan Pangkalahatan.
In the annual program review held
at DJNRMH, the RN Heals batch II was able to accomplish and attain the
objectives of the program. In addition, it paved way for increase in the
hospital statistics and patient satisfaction due to availability of healthcare
providers in the various medical wards. Community awareness and activities were
also the highlights of the deployment project. It enhanced the collaboration
with stakeholders and community.
Thru this, the DAP subsidy
enhanced augmentation of the human health resource that earmarked the scaling
up of public health programs in pursuit of MDGs. It paved way for a better
change towards success for the benefit of the country’s poorest of the poor and
also for the working status of each DOH healthcare personnel.
