Needs Assessment

A. Situational Analysis Barangay Inarawan was created and declared as a Barangay last July 25, 1983 under Batas Pambansa 794 consiting then of 6 Sitios namely Inarawan, Inuman, Buyag, Maagay, Binitinan and Gulugud Baboy consiting of an area of 1,487 hectares. At present, barangay Inarawan consist of 17 Sitios namely St. Anthony 1 A, St. Anthony 1B, St. Anthony 2A, St. Anthony 2B, St. Anthony 3, Kingsville, Town&Country Hills, Forest Hills, Maagay 1, Maagay II, Maagay III, Pandayan, Puti Bato, Inuman, Central Inarawan 1, Central Inarawan II, Kalakad and PLDT. Sitio St. Anthony is located at the northwest part of the Barangay Health Center in Inarawan. There are residential houses, barangay hall/health center, semi-Private school, wet market and dry market, computer shops, bakery and eateries available within the community.The barangay is headed by Punong Barangay Hon. Domingo Zuniga with Kagawad Hon. Pedro Sebio. The most common kind of dwelling units in the community were concrete and semi-concrete houses and Nawasa is the most common source of drinking water supply. Our group was assigned at Sitio St. Anthony I-B. The Sitio was located along Marcos Highway. Jeepneys and Tricycles are the most common transport facilities of the said area. Sitio St. Anthony 1-B is headed by Sitio Coordinator Rafael Elloran. The barangay health center is located at barangay hall. Medicines are said to be free and available in their health center but people in the community often cannot receive this privilege because of lack of promotion and sometimes lack of resources. During our Community Organizing activities, our group (group6), based from the written action plan decided to go for ocular survey and primary assessment together with the cooperation of the community leaders and members. Further assessment reveals that one of the main concerns of the people is the incidence of URTI. The chairman (Mr. Elloran) of the community was also asked on what program that he can suggest for us to focus on our implementation, he clearly suggested about URTI (specifically: cough and colds) which has a rampant occurrence in children in their community. During the 3rd week of our Community Organizing activity, we performed review of records, scanned and tallied cases which then shows that children from the St. Anthony, phase 1, is having an average incidence of URTI due to factors that has been stated earlier. By the use of these 3 influences, it was very evident that this problem needs to be further assessed and be given an appropriate solution sa the group decided to focus their implementation and mainly to train people about common Upper Respiratory Tract Infection, Its causes, the course of the disease and appropriate treatment and corresponding risk when these illness is not properly treated. Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (URTI) is an acute infection involving nose, pharynx, trachea, larynx and bronchi. Respiratory Tract is considered most common site of infection by pathogens. A wide range of organisms can infect respiratory tract including viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. There are some environmental, behavioral and nutritional factors that may possibly cause Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (URTI) such as: frequent climate change, lack of nutrition intake, poor hygienic practice, lack of budget for health maintenance and lack of vitamin supplementation. One of the factors that contributed to increased cases of URTI was climate change. Frequent weather changes contribute well to increase survival rate of virus in the environment. Children are most likely to have these infections because of their immature immune system and their activities which is

playing outside their houses which is very conducive to transmit or to acquire these illness. Since URTI is prevalent among children, The department of health developed a program to address this particular concern which is Integrated management of Childhood Illness or IMCI. From all the program in the community, IMCI will be the focus of the group because is necessary for the Baranggay health workers to utilize the IMCI properly, thru this the children will be properly assessed and be given appropriate interventions and treatment as soon as possible to avoid further problems and complications. The group also prioritizes IMCI due to lack of proper training regarding it and improper documentation of records in the health center.