Salcedo Health Development Foundation

Salcedo Health Development Foundation
is a foundation in Salcedo, Eastern Samar, Philippines

The purpose of SHDF is as follows:

  1. Salcedo Health Development Foundation aims to promote health equity by delivering holistic, sustainable healthcare solutions that empower marginalized communities in partnership with various local and international stakeholders, and ensure that every individual has the opportunity to access quality healthcare services.
  2. Provide a spectrum of quality health care services from promotion, prevention, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative services provided that purely professional, medical or surgical services shall be performed by duly qualified and licensed physicians or surgeon who may or may not be connected with this corporation.
  3. Develop community-based initiatives to ensure access to services, including emerging infectious diseases, nutrition, environmental health, mental health, and communicable and non-communicable disease prevention and control programs/projects.
  4. Capacitate health workers to address local and global human resource needs.
  5. Research health inequity, service delivery, health systems strengthening, and influencing local and national health problems.
  6. Develop innovative practices using health technologies applicable to local communities in compliance with Philippine laws.
  7. Establish partnerships and collaborations with local and international stakeholders to develop health packages responsive to local health needs.
  8. Foster collaboration with local and foreign organizations to develop partnerships with local communities, non-profit organizations, and government agencies to establish comprehensive support systems that tackle the multifaceted challenges faced by marginalized communities and enhance the implementation of the foundation’s programs and secure funding and other logistical support (equipment/medical supplies/ drugs and other pharmaceutical products).