Caraga RNC conducts postdisaster assessment in Dinagat Islands provide immediate and initial assessment of the nutrition situation among the affected population particularly among the nutrition vulnerable groups, i.e. children 0-59 months, pregnant and lactating women, women of reproductive age, elderly, and persons with disabilities after onset of emergency or disaster. The National Nutrition Council (NNC) Caraga, in close collaboration with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Philippines, conducted a post-disaster nutrition initial needs assessment at the Province of Dinagat Islands on Day 22 after Super Typhoon Odette ravaged the area. NOII Raphael Ochavo, together with UNICEF Philippines Nutrition Officer Pete John Biscarra and Programme Assistant Leah Tacsan. paid a courtesy visit to Dinagat Islands Health Cluster headed by the PHO II Caraga INFOCUS
Also, part of the deployment mission is to scout for storage facilities and coordinate for the delivery of Ready-toUse Therapeutic Food (RUTF) and Micronutrient The deployment mission Powder for the target of the Regional Nutrition beneficiaries in the Cluster (RNC) to the province. The RNC will Province of Dinagat continue to coordinate Islands was to gather data through the Nutrition the implementation of nutrition and health Initial Needs Assessment responses of the national (NINA) tool to generate information regarding the government agencies and international nutrition situation of the province and to conduct humanitarian organizations in the rapid case finding of nutritionally at-risk children affected areas of Typhoon Odette. and pregnant women. (RPOchavo, NNCCaraga/PIA-Caraga) NINA tool is designed to Dr. Jillian Francise Lee, together with PHO I Dr. Juan Javier Garchitorena, and PNAO Joanna Jessica Yasay.
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