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RC Makati steps up Stop TB Campaign RC Makati's Heather Kinross Center starts 2nd Training Program for GK Villa Paraiso Club kicks off nutrition program '08-09 with launch of 2 feeding modules in Calatagan Club upholds tradition at glittering 43rd Induction & Ball Club conducts Crisis Preparedness Seminar at adopted school 1st batch of public school principals finish RCM-Ateneo PEP training program Club launches Anti-TB offensive in seven project sites Club conducts Crisis Preparedness Seminar atadopted school Club 'makes the day' for some 1,600 children through Last Angel Gift Giving Project Club links up, renew Sister Club ties with RC Bukit Bintang Club partners with Chaine des Rotisseurs for Supplemental Feeding in San Pablo City New RCM/MRCFI Building inaugurated IMF head visits, donates $5,000 to Gawad Kalinga Rotary Village in Villa Paraiso RC Makati sweeps major awards, adjudged Most Outstanding Club-Overall at District Awards Night RCM-Ateneo Teacher Training Program graduates trainees from 10 MMA city divisions, 6 schools 2000+ kids receive Christmas presents under the Club's Club, MRCFI send help to Typhoon Reming victims through Red Cross, initiate help drive among members Gawad Kalinga, 7 other RC Makati projects win recognition at District 3830 Yearend Awards rite
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RC Makati steps up Stop TB Campaign
The Rotary Club of Makati's TB Eradication Committee chaired by PP Puno Peña is making good its commitment to contribute in a significant way to the national effort to wipe out tuberculosis from the country's list of major health issues. This it does by sponsoring the prescribed 6-month medical treatment of patients in selected communities. In cases where the patients are pre-school children, the TB medication program is reinforced by supplemental feeding provided by the club's Family Health and Nutrition Program chaired by PP Freddie Borromeo . On the 27 th of August, 3 modules of the Stop TB Program were launched in Quezon City for 100 young TB patients—40 in Brgy. Valencia , 35 in Brgy. Bagong Lipunan Crame, and 25 in Brgy. Horseshoe. Held at the Brgy. Horseshoe Kalusugan Health Center , the project is being implemented in partnership with Kabisig ng Kalahi and the concerned LGU. The club and Kabisig have also joined hands with RC Makati Bel-Air and Gawad Kalinga Welfareville in Mandaluyong for another Stop TB module, which was launched on the 28 th of August. This module covers 55 children suffering from primary complex. In both cases, a memorandum of agreement was signed by the project partners, and the club turned over the TB medicines to the barangay health center officials who are responsible for seeing to it that the patients take the prescribed medicines every day, religiously, for 6 months. The club provides the medicines for the program. Also on August 28, PP Puno Peña attended the annual convention of the Philippine Coalition Against TB at the Plaza Galleria in Pasig City to keep abreast of the latest developments on various aspects of the disease. Keynoted by Health Sec. Francisco Duque , the convention brought together a large group of doctors for a series of symposia on TB control and management, resource mobilization, surgical options, updates on the national TB program, new TB diagnostics and drugs, and the Directly Observed Therapy-Short Course method of medication, among other topics. Among the other speakers were Dr. Michael Voniatis of the World Health Organization and Dr. Thelma Tupasi of Makati Medical Center and the Tropical Disease Foundation. |
