The City Health Office (CHO) promised better and more efficient service after moving to its new headquarters fronting the Bonifacio Rotonda at A. Pichon Street in Davao City.
The 6-story building standing in a 900 square meter lot houses a pharmacy, a stockroom, and vaccine room. The CHO’s divisions, units, and administrative offices had already been relocated.
“Certainly, services will get better and more efficient. After 40 years of leasing an office, finally, thru the initiative of then Mayor Sara Duterte and support from the Department of Health 11 (DOH 11), we were able to establish our very own 6-story building,” said Dr. Ashley Lopez, head of CHO.
Lopez said the new building also gives its staff and health personnel a boost of their morale and competence to serve our constituents at their best efforts.
CHO is one of the agencies under the city government of Davao responsible for making health services accessible, available, acceptable and affordable to all its constituents.
It is a government mandate aiming to ensure that every Dabawenyo shall receive affordable and quality health benefits. This involves providing adequate resources such as health human resources, health facilities, and health financing.
The CHO City was created through RA 9160 or the Local Government Code of 1991 where health services are devolved to the LGUs. The services offered by the office include: medical consultations/check-ups, immunization, prenatal/post-partum, nutrition, laboratory, dental, premarital counselling, adolescent and youth health, Animal Bite and Treatment Center, Reproductive Health and Wellness (STI, HIV and Aids), family planning, counseling and referral, tropical diseases (dengue, malaria, schistosomiasis), health and sanitation (sanitary permits, inspection of establishments), cardiovascular diseases, non-Communicable disease (prevention of blindness, hearing, mental health, PWDs, Senior Citizens), issuance of health certificates and medical certificates, review of death certificates, issuance of permits (transfer, cremation), medico-legal services, infectious diseases services (TB/Leprosy), and paanakan.
