Disease surveillance is a process of coordinating, prioritizing, and streaming of multiple disease surveillance system into a unified national disease surveillance system that combines core surveillance activities and support functions into a single integrated activity for the purpose of making the system more efficient and effective in providing timely, accurate and relevant information for action. This is an epidemiological practice by which the spread of disease is monitored in order to establish patterns of progression.

A key part of modern disease surveillance is the practice of disease case reporting. With the advent of modern communication technology, submitting of reports thru online made the data collection fast and easy. However, there are still diseases reporting unit or DRUs in the province that are not timely in submitting their reports due to internet connections and availability of the computer to be used in reporting. Some of our Disease Surveillance Officers “DSOs” used their own computers in order for them to comply the required reports but in general all DRUs were active in submitting their reports weekly and in finding active and passive cases in their designated areas.

PESU activities were mostly sudden and emergencies hence a need of vehicle intended for PESU used is required to strengthen the disease surveillance in the province along with this is a PESU office. These are very important to function the PESU fully and effectively.

 

Last 2019 PESU ordinance was approved with a budget allocation of 1 million a year. Due to pandemic implementation of the ordinance were suppressed. Creation of Barangay Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit or BESU was planned to be implemented starting 2022.

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