Quadrant of Development: Health and Sanitation

TVI Resource Development Philippines Inc. (TVIRD) believes that human dignity directly relates to health, which in turn, is not possible without proper sanitation. By providing both health and sanitation facilities to host and impact communities that previously had no access to these basic services, TVIRD created a positive impact on the well-being and economic productivity of its beneficiary communities.

Members of the TVIRD medical team go to children and adults in far-flung rural areas to provide free vaccines during the anti-measles campaign.

Members of the TVIRD medical team go to children and adults in far-flung rural areas to provide free vaccines during the anti-measles campaign.

TVIRD has taken its commitment to health and sanitation a step further by establishing a lying-in clinic operated by full-time doctors, nurses and midwives in Canatuan. Before this clinic opened, ill-stricken residents of the remote mountain villages had to travel at least two hours through inhospitable terrain to get to the nearest hospital. Today, many people from the Siocon town proper go to Canatuan for medical checkups and treatments. The clinic provides 24/7 emergency medical services and has received close to 14 thousand consultations and admissions in a single year alone.

 

The TVIRD Clinic has helped save hundreds of lives in a community whose residents previously had to travel 36 kilometers to the nearest hospital before receiving medical attention.

The TVIRD Clinic has helped save hundreds of lives in a community whose residents previously had to travel 36 kilometers to the nearest hospital before receiving medical attention.

The company has also partnered with the Philippine government and non-government organizations in a regional effort to eradicate lymphatic filariasis – a mosquito-borne parasitic disease endemic in the remote areas of Mindanao. Moreover, the company has also conducted medical missions to several far-flung communities in Zamboanga Peninsula – something previously unheard of in these areas.

TVIRD donated community water systems that are now the source of potable water in four remote villages, benefiting over 250 households. TVIRD employees also braved the most inhospitable terrain and hostile weather to provide medical and dental care to thousands of residents in some of the remotest communities in Mindanao.

TVIRD donated community water systems that are now the source of potable water in four remote villages, benefiting over 250 households. TVIRD employees also braved the most inhospitable terrain and hostile weather to provide medical and dental care to thousands of residents in some of the remotest communities in Mindanao.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  1. Construction of community water systems in the following barangays, benefitting hundreds of households:
    1. Makiang
    2. Solonsangan
    3. Kilalaban
    4. Tanuman
    5. Tibangao
    6. Skyline
    7. D’ riconalla
    8. Tagaytay
    9. Candiz
  2. Construction of a community medical clinic in Canatuan, which is accessible to some 450 households
  3. Medical Mission Program offering free services in host communities
    1. Consultation/check-up
    2. Circumcision
    3. Dental services
    4. Distribution of vitamins for children
    5. Treatment of scabies
    6. Elimination of lymphatic filariasis
  4. Traditional Medicine Program
    1. Acupuncture
    2. Ventosa
    3. Traditional massage (“hilot“)
  5. Provision of sanitary toilets – benefitting about 100 households in the CADT areas and impact barangays
  6. Provision of materials for 25 individual household toilets at Solonsangan
  7. Operation Smile – 12 Subanon children underwent harelip surgery with the assistance of TVIRD
  8. Medical Assistance Program
  9. Construction of a health center at Barangays Kilalaban and Bulacana as well as Siocon, New Sagay and RT Lim
  10. Renovation of a health center at Barangay Latabon, Tibangao and S’ Cabral, Siocon, Zamboanga Del Norte