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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Thursday, March 1, 2018
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BACOLOD City – The SangguniangPanlungsod (SP) on its third and final reading yesterday approved an ordinance creating the city’s local nutrition committee.
The Bacolod Nutrition Committee Ordinance aims to curb malnutrition in the city, according to author Councilor Em Ang.
Ang, also the chairwoman of the SP committee on health, said there is a need for a local nutrition committee so that a “nutritionally improved city with well-nourished, healthy, intelligent, economically and socially productive constituents” will be achieved.
Bacolod has a 9.8-percent malnutrition rate in 2017, based on the Urban Basic Services Division and the City Health Office, the highest among local government units in Western Visayas.
Ang cited Section 5, Article 2 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution, which states that the government must “protect and promote the rights to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them.”
She also cited Presidential Decree 491, or the Nutrition Act of the Philippines, which declares that “nutrition is now a priority of the government to be implemented by all branches of the government in an integrated fashion.”
The councilor also stressed the provisions of the Local Government Code of 1991, which mandates local government units to“provide for basic services and facilities which includes programs and projects on child and youth welfare, family and community welfare, women’s welfare, welfare of the elderly and disabled persons; community-based rehabilitation programs for vagrants, beggars, street children, scavengers, juvenile delinquents, and victim of drugs abuse; livelihood and other pro-poor projects; nutrition services; and family planning services.”/PN
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