Health & Wellness
DOH CONDUCTS FIRST
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
SUMMIT IN CALABARZON
DOH Regional Director emphasizes the
importance of environmental CPR -
conservation, protection and rehabilitation
to sanitary engineers, sanitation officers
and health inspectors during the First
Environmental Health Summit for
CALABARZON on November 15-16, 2018
in Makati City
Credits : Glen S. Ramos
D
OH-CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas,
Rizal, Quezon) conducted The First Regional
Environmental Health Summit for sanitary
engineers, sanitation officers and health
inspectors held in Makati City on November
15-16, 2018 with the theme “Healthy and
Sustainable Environment”.
“I call on all of you to work with the
regional office to set up an effective service delivery
network to ensure the preservation and conservation of our
environment. We have to set up priorities in CALABARZON
for health and environmental concerns especially at the local
level,” Regional Director Eduardo Janairo stated during his
welcome message.
“We have to take good care of the trilogy of health - the
family, the health system and the environment. And our
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main goal for this summit is to provide environmental CPR -
conservation, protection and rehabilitation”, he emphasized.
Janairo added that CALABARZON has been suffering from
contamination from air, water and soil and residents are
constantly expose from environmental threats. “These hazards
include lack of access to safe drinking-water, inadequate basic
sanitation in the household and the community, indoor air
pollution from cooking and heating using coal, inadequate
solid waste disposal and air pollution from motor cars”.
“We need safe, healthy and supportive environments for
good health. The environment in which we live is a major
determinant of our health and wellbeing. We depend on it for
energy and the substances needed to sustain life”.
According to the regional environmental health unit,
CALABARZON leads in the overall lowest percentage rate of
zero open defecation (ZOD) in the country at 7%.