PMS, Dagupan focus on teens health concerns
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS
THE Pangasinan Medical Society (PMS) and the City Health Office (CHO) conducted a one-day seminar on Adolescent Health Care at the city museum on November 25, attended by 45 barangay nurses as well as midwives and physicians at the CHO tasked to address the concerns of teenagers in the city.
The seminar was intended to equip all health care providers as the first persons in contact with the teenagers while doing field work, according to Dr. Hilarion H. Maramba, PMS president.
This seminar dwelled on the updates of the Adolescent Job Aid Manual in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Society on Adolescent Medicine and the Pangasinan Medical Society.
PMS focused on the general, mental, sexual and reproductive health concerns of teenagers including the need to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Maramba said that while the government gives importance to the health of pregnant mothers, the elders and the children, lesser attention is being given to the teenagers in 10 to 19 years of age bracket.
The topics tackled included teenage pregnancy, peer pressure, bullying, depression that affects their behavior, puberty-related conditions, sexual maturity, school performance, anxiety, alcohol use, substance use and abuse, smoking and tobacco use, physical and sexual abuse, violence, and nutritional concerns among others.
The nurses were updated on psycho-social screening to equip them enough to detect whether their subject is undergoing a teenage crisis or not.
“This seminar is one of the five things on how to reach out to our teenagers,” said Maramba as he advised teenagers to stay in school, not to go on drugs and learn to say ‘NO’ when not ready.
Mayor Belen T. Fernandez launched the city’s own anti-bullying hotline, anti-drug hotline and violence against women and children hotline. (Joseph C. Bacani/CIO)
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