LOOK: The 16 barangays of San Julian Eastern Samar collectively built a Php 6.8Million worth isolation facility, the biggest COVID facility the town built so far during this pandemic.
With funding assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) thru its Kapit-Bisig Laban Sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) program, the facility has four structures, with each structure having two separate comfort rooms, showers, doffing places, and sanitation areas for medical frontline workers and patients. Further, the Kalahi-CIDSS program also funded the medical supplies and equipment such as blood pressure monitors.
Each room has a hygiene kit, drawer, tables, chair, electric fan, pillow, a pail, and trash bin, etc. with 32 rooms enough to house locally stranded individuals and returning residents.
In an interview with Municipal Budget Officer Diosdado Cristo, Jr., he expressed his gratefulness for the assistance extended by the agency. “Being a fifth class municipality, we always look for funding support from the national government to augment our limited resources, most especially that the municipal fund is dwindling fast.”, Cristo said.
With the augmentation support of DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS, the municipalities will have an opportunity to access more grants and implement community-identified projects.
Diosdado Cristo conveyed that he has become a “local Community-Driven Development advocate because this strategy makes communities work for their own development.”
Cristo also said that the LGU extended local part contribution (LCC) of Php 1 Million to build the isolation facility.
He concluded in his interview that LGU San Julian will always support the CDD program of DSWD through the provision of local counterpart contributions and sustaining the gains of the program through local ordinances.
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(credits: DSWD A/MCT San Julian)
