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It can be observed that health personnel actually remained practically the same for the past three years. This is despite the fact that population has been growing at 4.32% annually. The need will be tremendous especially when population doubles by 2016. The situation of inadequate personnel is further worsened by the inadequacy of facilities. There is a relatively high ratio of people served per rural health station. If we have to consider the distribution of these facilities, the situation is deemed worst. Most of these facilities are located in the poblacion which is hardly accessible to populations living in the midland, lower upland and upper upland. This has something to do with the horizontal stripping’  of the municipality into barangays, as well as the relative concentration of the population in the poblacion area. Read the rest of this entry »

Among surveyed households in 1997, 16.14% of respondents indicated that their new born child was less than 2.5 kilograms. Of the total 16.14%, 6.84% can be found in Barangay Pinugay, 1.92% in San Miguel, 1.54% in San Jose, 1.72% in Santiago and 1.10% in Rizal. An astounding  13.97% of respondents indicated that they have children in their household who are moderately or severely malnourished. Barangays Pinugay, Evangelista, Mabini, San Jose and Santiago contribute 4.37%, 1.19%, 2.64%, 1.975 & 2.13% respectively.

These numbers however do not indicate the actual figure but are indicative of the presence of underweight and malnourished children among households. In January to June 1997, a total of 4,590 children were weighed. The results show a relatively lower incidence of child malnutrition (shown in Table 3). This shows that the incidence of first degree and second degree malnutrition is spread out among the barangays and households in Baras.

Source: Baras Comprehensive Land Use Plan

Vascular disease has been the leading cause of mortality in Year 1999 and even in the period 1994-98 as shown in Table 1. The disease victimized people mostly aging 65 years old and above representing 63.64% of cases recorded. Most of these elders are male. The trend is also true for pneumonia. Read the rest of this entry »