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Writeshop on
disease
surveillance
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Posted on 7 May 2007 PRIMEX consultants will collaborate again with some 20 technical personnel from the Department of Health (DOH) in developing a manual of procedures for the newly-crafted Philippine Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (PIDSR) System to ensure its compliance with the revised International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) of the World Health Organization (WHO). The writing workshop will run from today, May 7 to 9 at Kimberly Hotel in Manila. Drafted by the DOH-National Epidemiology Center (NEC) and fine-tuned at a series of consultative workshops early this year, PIDSR is the Philippine strategy in harmonizing and integrating parallel, uncoordinated and ineffective disease surveillance systems in the country while institutionalizing a mechanism that would enable efficient responses to findings of every surveillance. The Manual will become a reference material for all health units across the country in implementing the PIDSR. PIDSR serves as the materialization of the Philippine commitment to adopt the IHR 2005, the most recent revision of the International Health Regulations unanimously adopted on 23 May 2005 by the World Health Assembly and scheduled to enter into force in June 2007 for all member states. Its broadened purpose and scope are to "prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade." A strategic planning workshop will immediately follow after the writeshop to chart doable action plans in carrying out the PIDSR within the next few years. The plan will then be presented to major stakeholders in the health sector on May 25 including funding agencies who may choose to develop and align their interventions with the new surveillance system. The activity formed part of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Strengthening Epidemiological Surveillance and Response (ESR) project for Communicable Diseases in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (TA No. 6305 – REG).
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