Facilities and Personnel
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.
Source: Baras Comprehensive Land Use Plan
