{"id":1507,"date":"2009-04-14T04:30:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2009-04-14T04:30:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:30:30","slug":"repostwould-really-like-to-know-other-peoples-thoughts-on-thisgmanewstv-botika-ng-barangay-not-in-poorest-places-special-reports-official-website-of-gma-news-and-public-affairs-latest-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/14\/repostwould-really-like-to-know-other-peoples-thoughts-on-thisgmanewstv-botika-ng-barangay-not-in-poorest-places-special-reports-official-website-of-gma-news-and-public-affairs-latest-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Would really like to know other people's thoughts on this!:GMANews.TV – Botika ng Barangay not in poorest places – Special Reports – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News – BETA"},"content":{"rendered":"

As stated by the article I’m paraphrasing this, The politicians from those poorest of the poor provinces need to get off their asses and aggressively initiate a botika ng bayan (drugstore) in thier baranggays. Think that the problem is two fold, It would be helpful to see the feasibility studies of the BNB, I’m particularly interested in how they arrived at the 15,000population. Maybe the private sector or individuals can come up with the 25000 peso seed money and directly pay the DOH for the medicine for the poorest baranggays that cannot even meet the minimum requirements or have very lazy local public officials.
\nWow two public health policy<\/a> posts in a day woot woot!<\/p>\n

Botika ng Barangay not in poorest places
\nJAN MARCEL RAGAZA and ALLIAGE MORALES, VERA Files
\n04\/14\/2009 | 04:49 PM
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\nFirst of two parts
\nIf a minimum wage earner were to be stricken with diarrhea, relief can come cheap from the Department of Health<\/a>\u2019s Botika ng Barangay BnB<\/a> outlets, where a 2-milligram capsule of generic loperamide would cost only P1.05.
\nThe BnB price is vastly lower than what loperamide costs in commercial drugstores\u2014P4.10 for generic and P14 for branded.
\nLaunched by President Gloria Arroyo<\/a> in 2001, the BnB program is the answer to poor Filipinos\u2019 need for cheap medicine. But here\u2019s the catch: There is not a single BnB outlet in some of the country\u2019s poorest provinces and towns where they are needed most.
\nAs of January 2009, there were 12,341botikas, a long way from the 427 in 2003. But the program covers only half of the country\u2019s 42,000 barangays and suffers from poor implementation and conflicting priorities from top to bottom. As a result, the BnB program has wasted scarce resources while denying health care<\/a> services to the poorest areas it was meant to serve.
\nOne example is the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao<\/a> which, aside from having the least number of hospitals and barangay health centers, has the smallest number of BnB outlets, numbering 78 as of last January. All the BnB outlets in ARMM are in Maguindanao<\/a>, leaving the provinces of Basilan<\/a>, Sulu<\/a>, Lanao del Sur<\/a> and Tawi-tawi<\/a> without any BnB drugstore.
\nvia GMANews.TV – Botika ng Barangay not in poorest places – Special Reports – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News – BETA<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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