LUCENA CITY—Quezon province is on a winning streak as it bagged successive awards last week from the departments of Health (DOH) and Tourism (DOT), and earlier from the Department of the Interior and Local Governments (DILG).
On November 28 Quezon province was the recipient of the Green Banner Award from the DOH-National Nutrition Council (DOH-NNC).
The NNC Calabarzon region informed Gov. David Suarez the interagency NNC Regional Sub-Committee on Nutrition approved the recommendation of the Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team to confer the following awards: Green Banner Award for Quezon province as the Most Outstanding in the region; Green Banner Award for Atimonan; Provincial Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Committee Award to Barangay Poblacion 4 of Atimonan; and Provincial Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) Award to Eleanor Anda of Barangay Zone 2 Poblacion, Atimonan, also finalist in the Regional Outstanding BNS in 2016.
The award said the results of the evaluation conducted affirmed the “efficient and effective management of the provincial, municipal and barangay nutrition program, which resulted to the improvement in the nutrition situation of children and their families in the communities.”
The award was the second consecutive and fourth Green Banner Award as Most Outstanding Province in the field of Nutrition in Calabarzon for 2016.
Suarez said that due to the establishment of the provincial nutrition action office and the barangay nutrition scholars, the malnutrition level in the province has been significantly reduced from over 17 percent during his first year as provincial governor in 2010 to 9.32 percent at present.
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