NCR Rncres No1 s2013

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Republika ng Pilipinas

KAGAWARAN NG KALUSUGAN
PAMBANSANG SANGGUNIAN SA NUTRISYON
(NATIONAL NUTRITION COUNCIL)
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION

Excerpts from the Minutes of the Regional Nutrition Committee Meeting


held on February 15, 2013 at the CHD-NCR Conference Room, Mandaluyong City

RNC-NCR RESOLUTION NO. 01


Series of 2013

RESOLUTION ENJOINING ALL SCHOOL BOARDS TO ALLOCATE FUNDS


FOR THE PURCHASE OF DETECTO/BEAM BALANCE WEIGHING SCALE
TO ENSURE THAT ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
SCHOOLS IN NCR WILL HAVE AT LEAST ONE UNIT OF DETECTO/BEAM
BALANCE WEIGHING SCALE

WHEREAS, the World Health Organization developed an international growth reference for
screening, surveillance, and monitoring of school-aged children and adolescents;

WHEREAS, in 2007, the Philippines agreed to adopt the 2007 World Health Organization-Child
Growth Standards (WHO-CGS) in the assessment of Filipino school children;

WHEREAS, the Department of Education (DepEd) in its Memorandum No.165, Series of 2010
entitled “Adoption of the 2007 WHO-CGS” ordered all Regional Directors, Schools
Division/City Superintendents, Heads, Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools to
use the WHO-CGS in determining the nutritional status of Filipino school children age 5-19
years old;

WHEREAS, in the same memorandum, school heads are responsible in the provision of the
beam balance scale with height scale as tools for height and weight-taking;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, by the


Regional Nutrition Committee of the National Capital Region in a meeting duly assembled, to
enjoin all School Boards to allocate funds for the purchase of detecto/beam balance weighing
scale to ensure that all public and private elementary and secondary schools in NCR will have at
least one unit of detecto/beam balance weighing scale to be used in the baseline and endline
weighing activities and regular growth monitoring of school children;

RESOLVED LASTLY, that the NNC-NCR Regional Office being the Secretariat of the RNC
to furnish the NNC Central Office, all regional members of the RNC and all school division
offices in the region a copy of this resolution.
Republika ng Pilipinas
KAGAWARAN NG KALUSUGAN
PAMBANSANG SANGGUNIAN SA NUTRISYON
(NATIONAL NUTRITION COUNCIL)
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION

APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY AND ADOPTED, this 15th day of February 2013 during the
first quarter meeting of the Regional Nutrition Committee of NCR at the Center for Health
Development-NCR, Mandaluyong City.

Approved:

EDUARDO C. JANAIRO, MD, MPH, CESO III


RNC Chairperson and
Director IV, Center for Health Development – Metro
Manila

Attested by:

MS. MILAGROS ELISA V. FEDERIZO, RND, MPH


Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator, NNC-NCR
and Secretary, RNC

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