The Operation Timbang held last July 10, 2019 is an integral part of the recent exposure giving us a glimpse of the nutritional status of the children from the barangay. This gave us a comprehensive outlook on a more holistic scale of the children of the community. These children may appear well and energetic to the ordinary eye, but, in the eyes of a physician, there’s more to what meets the eye.

The nutritional status of these children gave us a deeper sense of understanding that despite their frequent meals, still, a number of deficiencies can be inferred by the mere glance on a weighing scale or tape measure. These deficiencies may go in many directions: it may be due to inadequate carbohydrate, protein or fat intake or it may go to a more minuscule degree of vitamin deficiencies from A-Z.

Therefore, a need on health education and awareness should be reinforced for better eating habits and meal components. Health education may be undervalued and frowned upon by many since it doesn’t directly give out results and multiple attempts should be made for information to be instilled. However, with constant health teaching and patience, this stepping stone makes all the difference in the world.


Andrei P. San Luis
ADZU SOM, Level 1

Learning is a constant part of life, and teaching is the sharing of the newly acquired knowledge to the person you care about. Most learnings were done in the primary education, this is where the basic things in life like counting numbers, importance of eating nutritious food, being responsible and life skills are developed. With this, we had an opportunity to teach the pre-school students of Motibot Elementary school about oral hygiene and hand washing last January 24, 2019. This passage will discuss what and how we taught the students, lastly what was our experience of the mentioned event.

There are several ways on how to properly teach a person, however if it was a child, there are special ways to teach them, because they easily get bored and lost interest. Firstly, we used images that we had personally drawn ourselves like the picture of a healthy and unhealthy teeth and mouth for the effects of bad oral hygiene, because young learners appreciate more if there were images presented to them rather than just talking all throughout, and  lastly, we demonstrated them on how to properly brush their teeth  and hand washing by using songs like happy birthday and brush-brush song of a tooth paste brand commercial years ago for reference, in this way we had an active participation of the learners,and excitement in learning. These were the ways we used to teach our students, and it was a success.

We were able to see the joy and the impact of the being a doctor in a barrio was. Joyful because for some of us in the group it was their first time to teach in school, some it was their first time to teach health related topics and seeing how the students react to our teachings was priceless, and knowing that when we left the school that day, in some way we were able to have an impact on their lives. There were several memorable experiences of the event but these were the highlights we consider most significant.

Overall, it was a great opportunity, the students learned something from us and we also learned how it was to be a physician teacher in the community, and we look forward on doing more for the next four years.

“knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied” -Alan Moore

Roldan F. Legal Jr.

ADZU SOM, Level 1

Barangay Motibot’s Health Station holds a prenatal check-up and immunization day which is  usually on the first Tuesday and Wednesday of the month respectively. Expecting mothers and children would go to the BHS for their health status to be updated. 

Blood pressure screening and weight measurement are usually done for the pregnant mothers including the checking of fetal heart rate and fetal position. Vaccines are also given to the mothers. 

On Immunization day, infants are brought to the BHS to have an update on their vaccine shots. Mrs. Madilyn Lara is the current RHMPP Midwife assigned at the Barangay Motibot’s Health Station. She brings all the necessary vaccines and medicines for the monthly check-ups and gives advices to the families in Barangay Motibot.

Fatima Ayesha A. Dugasan

ADZU SOM, Level 1