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PIDSR pretested in local health units |
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Posted on 24 August 2007 MANILA – The strength of the new Philippine Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (PIDSR) system has been put to test as the Department of Health (DOH), with PRIMEX support, conducted pretesting of the system’s guidelines and procedures in various health units in Luzon. The ongoing pretesting involves two visits to the Valenzuela City Health Office on August 9 and 23 and to the DOH Region II Regional Epidemiological Surveillance Unit (RESU) on August 14 – 16 and September 11 – 13, covering the Isabela Provincial Epidemiological Surveillance Unit (PESU) and one Municipal Health Office (MHO). Through this activity, DOH and PRIMEX expect to identify errors, difficulties, software problems, and make the necessary corrections and other adjustments in the system before its full implementation nationwide, which is slated in the last quarter of 2007. The first visits involve roundtable orientations, discussions and coaching on the PIDSR system, reporting forms, electronic data entry and analysis, flow of reporting while the second ones are supervisory and monitoring visits to track the progress in the implementation of the integrated disease surveillance and response system. The PIDSR, which Health Secretary Francisco Duque hailed as the “bedrock of effective disease surveillance in the Philippines,” is the product of months of consultations, workshops, and research among health stakeholders and the PRIMEX team of consultants under the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Strengthening Epidemiological Surveillance and Response (ESR) to Communicable Diseases in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (TA No. 6305 – REG), being implemented by PRIMEX as the Lead Consulting Firm. The PIDSR aims to reduce morbidity and mortality through an institutionalized, functional integrated disease surveillance and response system nationwide. It incorporates the strengths of facility-based information systems and timely reporting of notifiable diseases to effectively respond to the threat of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
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