our Basic Services

Present Status of Well-being

1. Health Services and Facilities

   The Anilao Rural Health Unit (RHU) which represents the health sector is located in Barangay Poblacion, Anilao, Iloilo. It has been in existence since the early 70’s. It is open to the public five days a week – Monday to Friday at 8:00 in the morning to 5:00 o’clock in the afternoon with “No Noon Break”. It is manned by one doctor, one nurse, one Medical Technologist, 2 midwives and one Sanitary Inspector. The center is accredited in all four packages of Phil Health namely:

• Primary Care Package 1 (PCB1)
• Maternity Care Package (MCP)
•  TB DOTS Package
• Newborn Screening

The RHU is composed of five catchment health facilities namely:

• Main Health Center – caters to all barangays but has its own catchment barangays namely Barangays Poblacion, Sambag Culob, Pantalan, Palaypay and Sta. Rita. It is the seat of the health sector where the doctor, dentist, nurse, medical technologist and the sanitary inspector are based.
• Badiang Barangay Health Station (BHS) – caters to barangays of Agbatuan, Badiang, Serallo, San Juan, and Medina
• Camiros Barangay Health Station (BHS) – caters to barangays of Camiros, Balabag, Sto. Rosario and Vista Alegre
• Dangula-an Barangay Health Station (BHS) – caters to barangays of Dangula-an, Cag-an and San Carlos
• Mostro Barangay Health Station (BHS) – caters to barangays of Mostro, Guipis, Balunos and Manganese

2.   Health Services/ Programs

The Anilao Rural Health Unit as well as the Barangay Health Stations offers the following health services/programs:

There are also three private clinics in the municipality, two in Poblacion and one in Sta. Rita.

A separate TB DOTS Clinic was constructed in 2014 outside of the RHU to cater patients with cough of two weeks or more duration. This is to separate patients who probably have tuberculosis thus avoid infecting other patients or clients. The clinic is manned by the TB-DOTS Management Team composed of a doctor, a Medical Technologist, two TB-DOTS Nurse managers and a sanitation inspector.

The Birthing Center is a certified BEmONC facility. Presently however, birthing at the center is on “On Call” basis only because of want of midwives who can go on duty for 24 hours.

                                                                                                                                                      Health Statistics 2013-1015 (MHO, Anilao)

                                                                                                                             Ten Leading Causes of Morbidity for the 2013-2015

                                                                                                 Source: Municipal Health Office

                                                                                                                        Ten Leading Causes of Mortality for the 2013-2015

                                                                                           Source: Municipal Health Office

2. Social Welfare and Development Services

Majority of PWDs belong to the age group of 10-50 years old which may mean an impact to monthly income of our PWDs. As to the type of disability, orthopaedic handicap rank one which means that PWDs belong to these group can and maybe productive if given proper support.

All barangay having a Day Care Center are in good condition. Senior Citizen Center and Women Center are using mutli-purpose hall which get a poor rating because it is expected that senior citizen and women’s center should have their own place/room to use to discuss issues and problem pertaining to their sector/group.

Youth Welfare Program includes the provision of wide range of development, preventive and remedial services to enable the youth to become active contributor in national development. The LGU thru the MSWDO organized the youth sector in all barangays and now on its on-going reactivation

Presently, there are 400 active PYAP members.  The LGU supports their regular participation in the provincial and regional summits. They are mobilized by the LGU and are given designated task so as to make use of their skills, knowledge and attitudes on LGU/MSWDOs program implementation

Continuing information dissemination in coordination with Barangay Officials regarding child protection laws is to being done to ensure that children and youth are given proper protection and guidance.

Based on the assessment of DRRMO, all Day Care Centers are disaster/hazard free.

The recipients of the services of MSWDO of Anilao are as follows:

Children ages 3-4 who are classified as Pre-schoolers are those needing socialization programs and activities.  The succeeding year will be dedicated to kindergarten work, pre-schooler at this level are being prepared for the grade school education. MSWDO personnel are in charge of supervising pre-school educators conducting sessions in this level. Parents of these children are encouraged to participate and have a full cooperation with the Day Care Workers and teacher as to the development of their children. Results of which are shown in Table SWI. Massive Campaign on the implementation/ enforcement of our Municipal Children’s Welfare Code is a must.

The MSWDO also conducts pre-marriage counselling to couples applying for marriage license. Group session is used by trained and accredited marriage councilors as their strategy to carry-out a more comprehensive and effective discussion Other private organizations such as Couples’ for Christ and other church-based organizations are also conducting pre-marriage counselling sessions to concerned couples.

Another type of service is the Family Development Program whose clientele are the families of SLP beneficiaries, Day Care Service Parents Association, PWD, LGBT, Solo Parents, VAW Victims, 4Ps beneficiaries and other client groups served by MSWDO Anilao. Collaborative efforts of Civil Society Organizations and other government line agencies lead to the success of this program. Counselling, peer group meetings, case conference and home visits and other related programs and services needed to respond to the surfaced needs of beneficiaries are the strategies used by MSWD Office for the effective delivery of this program.

For Senior Citizens, 2,218 beneficiaries and its growing population had been identified as recipients of Social Pension. It is expected to raise its number every year as the guideline lower down the age bracket to sixty (60) years old and above to qualify for the program.

Another child related program is the Supplemental Feeding for pre-schoolers. This program aims to improve the nutritional level of pre-schooler enrolled in Child Development Centers.

On Sectoral Groups Development Program, capability building of sectoral groups such as women, Solo Parents, LGBT, PWD, Children, Senior Citizen and other groups are the beneficiaries of this program. They were organized by the LGU and some of them were accredited by the Sangguniang Bayan, SEC, DOLE and other accredited government agencies for them to have a legal identity and for possible availment of leadership trainings that may be available in the future. Financial management and other organizational strengthening activities will be provided by MSWDO and other line agencies to ensure that these sectoral groups are functional. Sustainable/Livelihood activities will able them to be self- reliant members of our society (Table 3.15.1 shows the historical data of clientele served).

1.         Social Welfare Development Programs and Services

The Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office is implementing social protection program such as 4P’s, Social Pension, Sustainable Livelihood Programs and Aid to Individual in Crises Situation. These programs and activities contributed to the decrease of poverty situation in the Municipality. Livelihood programs are being implemented and monitored properly to warrant its sustainability to help beneficiaries out of their expenses for education and basic needs. The Department of Education has its Alternative Learning System catering those who cannot go to formal schooling to finish their 2^nd level education. It contributed to the decrease of poverty incidence in a way that they have to spend less for their education and in order to find job in the future.

Cash assistance to indigent families and individuals under difficult circumstances needs thorough assessment and validation with the recommendation and certification from respective Punong Barangay. These are the granting of hospitalized, death, sick, stranded, educational needs, victims of man- made and natural calamities. Granting of financial assistance may vary according to the scope,the type of crisis they are undergoing and the material and financial capacity of the family/victim. The assistance maybe in the form of check or cash to be disbursed by the Municipal Treasurer or duly authorized person.

Health Care Program is similar to the granting of financial assistance to individuals and families in crisis situations however, disbursement of fund goes directly to hospitals (with MOA) where the client is admitted. Documents required for this program are medical certificate and hospital bills of eligible identified clients. Granting of assistance depends on the situation of the client and assessment of a social worker or any authorized staff of MSWD Office.

Free Mortuary Services Program provides free coffin to the dead family member of identified indigent family. Cost of coffin to be provided by LGU will be based on the assessment of a Social Worker and on the financial capacity of the client/family. Assistance/payment for coffin will be paid directly to the servicing funeral parlor where Anilao LGU has a MOA.

Libreng Sakay Program is a provision of transportation facilities to 24 high school students of Anilao National High School living in Barangays which are very far from Poblacion area and the transportation fare is very high. Parents and students undergo series of meetings and orientations for them to know their obligations in availing such program. Student beneficiaries are required to earn a very satisfactory grade to maintain availment of the program.

Gender and Development Capability Building focuses on gender equality and finding solutions and formulation of plans on gender issues and gender based violence. It also includes conduct of GAD planning and budgeting sessions to Government line agencies and the mainstreaming of GAD to all levels of governance..

Special Programs shown in Table 3.15.2 are downloaded by National Agencies requires provision of local counterpart both financial, physical and personnel for effective delivery of basic services attached to MSWDO programs. This is consist of provision of cash counterparts to municipal and barangay projects, hiring and travel allowance of personnel and provision of goods to ensure efficient implementation of programs and projects in the municipal level. To ensure the attainment of its goals and objectives, monitoring and evaluation of the program being implemented shall be regularly done.

              Poverty Incidence

Poverty incidence in the Municipality of Anilao per the official data of PSA on Municipal level small area poverty estimates year in 2009 is 31.5% and lately in 2012 is 27.3%. It is notable that there is a decrease in the poverty incidence of 4.2% for the span of three (3) years. It is because of the concerted effort of the Local Government Unit through its frontline agencies who implemented livelihood activities and skills training programs that created income generating projects which consequently resulted to the increase of family income of its constituents. The Municipal Agriculture Office initiated modern method of farming and provides assistance thru fertilizer and seeds which in return produce high rice production.

3.  Education

For years, the Anilao LGU has demonstrated commitment to support all educational endeavours to enable young Anilaonons to become productive and globally competitive citizens of the world.

Some of its successful interventions are the Libreng Sakay Program and financial support to the elementary and secondary baseball team putting Anilao as the baseball cradle of Iloilo for years. The LGU has also extended maximum support to the education sector specifically on the construction and repair of school buildings, NAT Review, Summer Reading Program, ALS, scouting activities and other student development programs.

All these efforts are undertaken to make Anilao soar high through the years.

       a.  Participation Rate

The government has provided free basic education to its people. Moreover, less-fortunate ones are given support through the 4Ps. Thus, more pupils/students are found to be in school.

The result shows that there is a quite low percentage of school age children not in school. For some reasons, they are enrolled in schools located outside the boundary of the municipality.

The Enrolment- Participation Rate is increasing for the last five (5) school years for all school levels. In pre-school, a 100% participation rate is achieved in the school year 2015-2016 and both elementary and secondary levels have also achieved an equally good and increasing participation rate.  This means that majority of the school going age population in Anilao are in school for the past five years.

                                                                                                                      Historical Enrolment Participation Rate For Sy 2011-2016

                                                                                               Source:  DepEd Anilao

                                                                                                                    Hazard Susceptibility of Schools to Flood, CDRA 2017