HEALTH FACILITIES

For public health facilities, Binalbagan has an infirmary, a rural health unit (RHU), six (6) barangay health stations. Six (6) multi-purpose centers function as health stations. The Puericulture Center, another health facility in the poblacion, conducts consultation every Saturday. Aside from these facilities, the Binalbagan Isabela Sugar Company (BISCOM) also operates an infirmary. However, it only provides services exclusively for its employees.
The RHU provides the following health services: free medical and dental consultation and services, free medicines to indigents, family planning seminars, pre-natal examination and immunization. While medical and dental consultations and services are conducted daily, pre-natal examinations, immunization and family planning seminars are given only on Tuesdays and Fridays. The Rural Health Physician, who heads the RHU, is assisted by two (2) nurses and two (2) casual midwives, three (3) sanitary inspectors and four (4) utility workers. Twenty- seven midwives, eighteen of them permanent, are assigned in all barangays. Barangays with bigger population such as Enclaro and Payao are assigned two (2) midwives each. The following health services are offered in the Barangay Health Stations: pre-natal examination, post-partum follow-up, deliveries, family planning services, immunization, under five clinic, environmental sanitation, national tuberculosis program, communicable diseases & diarrhea control, and nutrition program. Twenty-four (24) hilots assist the midwives in deliveries in remote areas of the barangays.
The Binalbagan Infirmary, which was established in 1989, attends to emergency cases aside from providing free consultation and maternal delivery. Three (3) doctors, seven (7) nurses, five (5) midwives, and four (4) utility workers compose its staff.
Ideally, with a 1999 population of 54,542, the government health service personnel for Binalbagan should be two (2) doctors, two (2) nurses, two (2) sanitary inspectors, and ten (10) midwives. With the combined staff of the RHU and the Binalbagan Infirmary, health service workers in Binalbagan are more than sufficient.