V.

DESCRIPTION OF THE POPULATION BEING SERVED

District A is under Tomas Claudio Health Center that accommodates Barangays 1-10 with a total

population of 52,690 as of the year 2018. The Tomas Claudio Health Center caters walk-in

immunizations, barangay immunizations, and school-based immunizations from Grade 1 to Grade 6

students.

VI. PROGRAM STATUS

The immunization program of Tomas Claudio Health Center was scheduled every Wednesday in

the health center, or assigned health center satellites, at the barangays included or at schools. Information

about this program is posted in the health center and they also announce it before going to the barangays

so residents will be aware. After the first immunization, people will receive a card to check the progress

of their vaccinations and this will be their key to the next follow up or next dose.

The goal of this program is to immunize 95% of the eligible children from the total population

with the appropriate vaccines. Vaccines given are 1 dose of BCG and Hepatitis B; 3 doses of pentavalent

vaccine (DPT-Hep B-HiB), OPV and PCV; and 2 doses of MMR vaccine.

Fully immunized children (FIC) are from ages 9 months to 12 months, while completely

immunized children (CIC) are ages above 12 months. We compared the data of immunized children both

FIC and CIC from 2016 to 2018, refer to the data below.

2016 2017 2018

Fully Immunized Children 72.2% 84.4% 82.5%
Completely Immunized Children 14.4% 6.3% 9.6%
Total Immunized Eligible Children 86.6% 90.7% 92.1%

From the data above, both the FIC and CIC were inconsistent as to the trend. The health center

also did not reach the goal of 95%. Although it did not reach the goal, the trend of the total immunized

eligible children still were increasing.

 We talked about concerns or issues as to maybe why they did not reached the goal. One reason

was because some of the parents did not agree to immunize their children because they were scared of the

Dengvaxia issue. Next, some people after receiving the first dose, they migrate to other places or some

were temporary residents. Hence, health workers cannot follow up the next dose of vaccine needed or

check up on them. Another reason was when the Marawi incident happen, people migrated here in Davao

and some of them were not included in the total population or some of them were not screened as to

whether they were immunized or not. Lastly, there were times that supplies of vaccines were delayed so

the program cannot push through the said schedule.