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Posted on 28 August 2006 The ability of local government units to detect the threats of emerging infectious diseases (EID) will be strengthened following the proposal of the Philippine Department of Health to develop a training program that would enable LGUs to conduct disease surveillance and outbreak response. The proposal was among the results of the discussions between the DOH, the Asian Development Bank and PRIMEX during consultations last July following the commencement of PRIMEX services in implementing ADB technical assistance on Strengthening Epidemiological Surveillance and response for communicable diseases in Indonesia, Malaysia, The DOH, through the National Epidemiology Center (NEC) is presently looking at ways NEC Director Dr Enrique Tayag said the training program will be will be made up of two stages: development phase (4 weeks) and field testing phase (8-12 weeks) wherein four sites will be identified for field tests. Aside from the ESR training, the DOH has also signified interest to improve its National Epidemic Sentinel Surveillance System (NESSS) under the technical assistance project by developing its Manual of Procedures. NESSS is a nationwide surveillance system that collects information on cases and deaths from 15 infectious diseases including Cholera, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Malaria, Typhoid Fever, Dengue, Diphtheria, Leptospirosis, Meningococcal disease, Non-neonatal tetanus, Pertussis and Rabies, among others. ADB RETA 6305 is an 18-month technical assistance project that started last June which seeks to assist the three countries (Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines) in their implementation of World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, a set of protocols outlining core public health surveillance and response capabilities including how to determine if a health problem represents a problem of international public health importance. The project also seeks to strengthen national and subnational performance of the essential public health functions (EPHFs) of communicable disease surveillance and response in the three countries while promoting subregional cooperation in communicable disease control and monitoring, containment, and prevention of outbreaks through networking, information and experience sharing, and improvement of ESR systems. With the occurrence of severe Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs) in recent years, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Avian Influenza (AI), and the threat of a pandemic influenza outbreak (as a result of human-to-human transmission of the mutated H5N1 virus), it has become an imperative for governments to enhance their ESR capability for early disease detection and their ability to respond to outbreaks. (ADY/PRIMEX)
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