The Department of Health (DOH) and several other company companions of the United Nations (UN) on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate in addressing malnutrition within the Philippines.
The settlement is a part of the Philippine Multisectoral Nutrition Project (PMNP) which adopts a daring multi-sectoral strategy to attain nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions throughout 235 native authorities items throughout the nation, in addition to 40 municipalities within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Health Secretary Ted Herbosa stated that the DOH’s partnership with the UN is a testomony to their shared dedication to constructing a more healthy and higher future for the Filipinos, significantly girls and youngsters.
“The PMNP is a recognition that nutrition is not just a matter of health. The Marcos Administration sets this intervention as part of its foundation for social and economic development by ensuring women and children’s access to the first 1,000 days of services as a critical investment in our country’s human capital,” he stated.
The collaboration between DOH and the UN, together with UNICEF and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), would supply healthcare tools and provides, primary major care and diet commodities, multisectoral data programs growth for localized decision-making, capability constructing for frontline healthcare employees, group well being navigation, and well being and diet management and governance for native chief executives.
It can even improve the DOH’s entry to world experience, data, and sources by leveraging the UN’s portfolio of packages and initiatives.
During the launching of the PMNP in March, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. urged lawmakers to develop and enshrine into legislation insurance policies that can assist eradicate malnutrition and uplift the requirements of major well being care and diet within the Philippines. — BM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
