LGU-Pang Skeds array of events for 26th Nat’l Stats Month
CAPITOL NEWS
Provincial Health Officer Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman (upper photo), chairman of 2015 National Statistics Month (NSM), announces the line-up of activities for the month-long celebration to provincial employees (lower photo) during the flag raising ceremony on October 5 at the Capitol Plaza in Lingayen. /MVSadim
In line with the 26th National Statistics Month celebration to be held this October, the provincial government has scheduled various activities to make the event more meaningful.
With the theme, “Maximize and Use Statistics Towards Expanding Health Care Opportunities (Pagyamanin at Gamitin ang Estadistika, Kalusugan para sa Lahat ay Abot-Kamay Na),” the celebration highlights different activities that will focus on the province’s serious intention to heighten its health program with the aid of statistical data.
It can be recalled that Pangasinan garnered the Best NSM Province in Region 1 for three (3) consecutive years from 2008 to 2010. These consecutive wins catapulted Pangasinan into the Hall of Fame Award in 2011.
With this, the provincial government under the leadership of Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. continuously endeavors to intensify the promotion of awareness and appreciation of the value and importance of statistics to the different sectors of society as well as to elicit cooperation and support of the public in upgrading the quality and standards of statistics in Pangasinan.
Meanwhile, Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa De Guzman, chairman of this year’s event, urged Pangasinenses to continue doing the best-practices that were done in the past years as this, according to her, will give the province an added strength towards achieving its goal in maintaining its title as the most statistically-developed LGU in the region.
Scheduled activities for this year’s provincial NSM celebration include the following: oratorical contest, essay writing, poster and slogan-making, statistical quiz, jingle making.
Winners for the literary competition under the provincial level will automatically represent Pangasinan in the regional competition on October 9, 2015.
The event will also be highlighted by the conduct of the first-ever Pangasinan Environment Summit on October 8 at the Sison Auditorium, Youth Leadership Summit on October 14 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center (NRSCC), and Provincial Health Summit on October 23 also at the Sison Auditorium.
Other statistics-related activities are also included as part of the month-long celebration such as skills enhancement/livelihood training seminars, briefing on fraud and scam (involving all barangay captains and treasurers in the province), and mangrove planting.
Health activities were also scheduled like malaria border operation in Brgys. Pita and Babuyan at Infanta town (Oct. 19-23), HI-5 surgical caravan (same date) at Bayambang Distict Hospital, TB caravan through integrated mopping “Operation Suyod of TB and Leprosy Cases” in the towns of Bani, Anda, Agno, Mabini, Lingayen, Labrador and Mangatarem on October 20, 21, 27, and 28.
The provincial statistics committee comprised of various line agencies will also conduct evaluations on the Search for the Most Statistically Developed LGUs from October 15 to 23.
Awarding of LGU scorecard is on October 23 at the Sison Auditorium while the closing ceremony will be on October 30 also in the same venue. (Ruby R. Bernardino)
