Dr. Rhoel Dejaño (third from left, entrance row) joins a gaggle picture with the remainder of the Palarong Pambansa medical employees and personnel throughout their remaining briefing on the infirmary of the Cebu Metropolis Sports activities Middle (CCSC). | Contributed picture
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Famend sports activities doctor Dr. Rhoel O. Dejaño left no stone unturned in ensuring that the Palarong Pambansa’s medical group is prepared for the week-long competitors subsequent week.
In an interview, Dejaño, the “Sportsman of the 12 months” awardee of the thirty eighth SAC-SMB Cebu Sports activities Awards informed CDN Digital that he deliberate and designed Palarong Pambansa’s medical group from the Olympics.
Dejaño adopted such a blueprint after he served as one of many volunteer sports activities physicians within the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Quick ahead to 2024, Dejaño was tasked to steer Palarong Pambansa’s medical group that may oversee the welfare of greater than 12,000 athletes from 19 areas competing in 34 sports activities.
Their most important headquarters shall be on the official infirmary within the Cebu Metropolis Sports activities Middle (CCSC) situated on the Danceport Staff Cebu Metropolis’s dance studio, whereas the 2 most important hospitals are the Cebu Metropolis Medical Middle (CCMC) and the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Middle (VSMMC).
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“I introduced in specialists and docs from Manila and from right here in Cebu that may help the athletes in want of medical help,” mentioned Dejaño.
The infirmary boasts not simply of its docs and nurses, but in addition a musculoskeletal ultrasound for the immediate prognosis of musculoskeletal and different accidents.
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Dr. Rhoel Dejaño (third from left) poses for a photograph with the CCMC officers and fellow Palarong Pambansa medical group officers. | Contributed picture
600 medical volunteers
In the meantime, over 600 medical volunteers comprised of docs, nurses, bodily therapists, psychologists, and emergency responders shall be deployed all through all taking part in venues and billeting quarters to make sure the protection and well-being of all delegates of Palarong Pambansa.
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Additionally, Dejaño revealed that there’s an space for rehab and bodily remedy for injured athletes.
He additionally tapped BTL Philippines, a medical tools producer, to usher in top-of-the-line tools to make Palarong Pambansa’s medical group and infirmary totally able to aiding injured athletes.
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“We’re able to diagnosing extreme accidents resembling torn muscle tissue or ligaments, or infected ligaments. We additionally tapped an organization that may present us the ultrasound machine. There may be an space for rehab and bodily remedy for injured athletes, and now we have top-of-the-line tools nga akong gidala para gyud aning Palarong Pambansa. We partnered with BTL Philippines for the medical tools resembling ultrasound, chilly remedy, laser, and high-end medical tools,” Dejaño mentioned.
Sports activities psychologist
These coping with ache from their defeat can avail of free counseling from Dejaño’s sports activities psychologists who shall be on the infirmary throughout your complete period of Palarong Pambansa.
“We even have sports activities psychologists that may assist our athletes cope with the defeat in competitors and different associated issues,” Dejaño mentioned.
All these have been materialized primarily based on Dejaño’s expertise as one of many sports activities physicians throughout the 2016 Olympics.
“Kind of, pero di man gyud ta makasunod ana, however as a lot as attainable, mura ug prototype nato sa Olympics setup. From the sector now we have a medical group there that may deliver the injured athlete to the infirmary, in order that they don’t must deliver them to the closest hospital,” he mentioned.
“Kung dili kaya sa infirmary, dad-on sa hospital. Naa jud chain of referral system and purely volunteerism from these I reached out to. Kung di makaya sa CCMC and Vicente Sotto, two personal hospitals in Chong Hua and UCMed mao atong referral, madala ang affected person didto. It’s really the federal government and personal sector working collectively for Palarong Pambansa’s medical group.”
The opposite associate hospitals of Palarong Pambansa’s medical group are Saint Vincent Basic Hospital, Perpetual Succour Hospital, Visayas Group Medical Middle, Mendero Medical Middle, St. Anthony Mom and Little one’s Hospital, and Eversley Little one Sanitarium and Basic Hospital.
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