My Indang RHU Immersion Experience: Day 5 - Stormy Days

    Today, I woke up as ready as ever to help out at the Indang Rural Health Unit. Unfortunately, as per the announcement of Cavite's governor Abeng Remulla, we did not have any RHU duty today due to the tropical storm Crising. Our community supervisors were informed at 8 am that our RHU duty for the day was cancelled. To still be productive, we instead worked on our complementary and alternative medicine  and community health teaching reports. I ended up being assigned to the Guyam Malaki health teaching, where we were to teach the community about deworming, and the first 1000 days (the dos and don'ts during the period from conception to a child's second birthday). Between those two topics though, I ended up writing the content related to deworming in our report, because that was what we were going to teach and put into our educational materials. 

 

    For the community health report, I made tables for the top 10 morbidities in Indang, Cavite for the general population, for males, and for females. The data I used came from the 2025 FHSIS report of Calabarzon, so we were sure that it is reliable and up to date. Making these reports helped me learn the importance of proper management. Without the leadership of our second-years, our decision-making would surely be less efficient. Even in small decisions like deciding who would be best to handle a specific part of a report, I really understood that as a doctor, I'll be needing to practice my leadership to be helpful in managing groups effectively in the future. Later in the day, we first-years had an online meeting where we discussed our action plans moving forward for the community health teaching and the surveying we'll be doing regarding community and alternative medicine. All in all, though we were away from the RHU, being productive in our homes allowed us to stay positive through the storm and be ready for when we return to serve the community.

Location: 6V2F+483, J. Dimabiling Street, Indang, Cavite, Philippines

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