TREAD TO ADHERE MATERNITY WELFARE

The province of Surigao del Sur has recorded drastic maternal maternity ratio in year 2005 where
3 out of 1000 pregnant women died brought by giving birth. Data have showed that from the
same year mentioned above the maternal mortality ratio sum up to 269 per 100,000 live birth.
This implied distress and a call for action to take precaution how it will be eradicated.
The now incumbent governor Johnny Pimentel shared his stance how it did affect the whole
province. He has witnessed a lot from the very first start, where being a provincial administrator
back then was what he holding. He has seen torment issue about health, scenario that left him
drown, driven him to respond to the call of grievances. Taking stand to make changes and have
progress for the betterment.
Different ordinances and law have passed to unleash what trigger the satisfaction of community
concerning the health and maternity welfare be felt. Trust fund allocated to public hospital,
revitalization of local area health development zone (LAHDZ) where the support and cooperation
of local official about health concern be discussed and later on be discern to assessment and
reconciliation, the income retention system where it allowed the hospital to be self sufficient
about the needs and essential commodity. The mentioned above implementation forged to
addressed health and maternity concern.
The governor mandated the whole community to take part yearning for attainment what was
the objective. Responding to the call, women’s health team come into formation where its role
is to facilitate, surveillance, and monitor concerning about childbirth. They’ve also established
birthing clinic and halfway house to assure safety and security of mother’s expecting to give birth
on their due date. This support the ought to prevent mortality ratio and the risk of giving birth,
undertaken to partially root out the maternal mortality rate.
Another assessment that had been done and from then up to now have been implemented was
the prohibition of the traditional giving birth “hilot” which buoyant as one of the culprit why
there’s this issue about maternity being a problem drastically. It is what was said preferable
during that time, exposing danger to pregnant woman. Assertive that it penalized Php500 fine
for 1st offense, Php800 fine for 2nd offense, and for the 3rd offense a fine of Php1000 and
imprisonment both the pregnant woman and the “manghihilot” if caught and proven still
indulging the traditional practice. Disseminating the information throughout the province of
Surigao del Sur both aloof and not about what was being implemented and the program being
offered highly spare to attain its objective.
It was year 2009 when maternal mortality ratio lowered down to 99 per 100,000 compared from
2005 maternal mortality ratio, 269 per 100,000. The success about the drastic reduce of mortality
rate highly gave acknowledgement to how the system being managed, to the programs have
offered, facility that allow accessibility, and impressive governance and the empowerment of the
community to sought for the fulfilment of common objective.