POWER

Electric Power: The municipality’s power source is provided by the Dagupan Electric Corporation (DECORP) and the Panelco III. All the 26 barangays are now electrified even the remote sitio’s had been fully electrified.

WATER

Water supply and Waterworks System: Out of 26 barangays of Manaoag, there are 12 barangays in the municipality being served by the Manaoag Water District. Majority of the households of the municipality get their water supply from tubed/piped deep/shallow wells wherein as of 1995, there are 88 deep wells and 4,598 shallow wells in the municipality.

SHELTER

Based on the 1990 NCSO record, there were 7,791 dwelling units within the municipality against 8,040 households, the difference is around 249 is termed as the number of double-up households.

HEALTH

There is one (1) hospital in Manaoag. The Manaoag Community Hospital and/or Speaker Eugenio Perez Memorial Hospital located at Barangay Baritao, some 1.0 kilometer southwest of Poblacion. Some residents go to Dagupan City or Urdaneta City for complex medication. The Manaoag Community Hospital is handled by three (3) doctors headed by the Chief of Hospital, six midwifes, three (3) nurses, a pharmacist, a dentist and other health co-workers.

There are six (6) privately owned medical clinics, five (5) dental clinics, one (1) optical clinic and seven (7) drugstores. All these are located in the Poblacion area. The municipality has an ambulance and it has equipped with life saving devices and also the Manaoag Community Hospital has an ambulance that may be used in cases of emergency.

There is only one (1) Rural Health Unit located in the Poblacion area. The RHU covers all the 26 barangays. It is being maintained and run by the Municipal Health Officer and assisted by a routine of health personnel - a public health nurse, two (2) sanitary inspectors, a dentist, a dental aide, nine (9) public health midwives and other health workers.

The Barangay Health Centers in various barangays also caters health needs to the community. It is run and managed by the Barangay Health Workers as volunteers, under the supervision of the Rural Health Midwives of the Rural Health Unit. There are fifteen (15) barangay health centers in the municipality located in the barangays of Poblacion, San Rmon, Cabanbanan, Oraan East, Matulong, Baguinay, Lelemaan, and Inamotan, Babasit

The ten (10) leading causes of morbidity for the last five years (1990-1994) are Acute Respiratory Infection, Anemia, Nutritional Deficiency, Skin Problem, Gastro Intestinal Disorders, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Parasitism, Injuries, Influenza, and the rest will be recorded in different illness like Bronchitis, Amoebiasis and Dysentery.

The ten (10) leading causes of mortality for the last five (5) years (1990-1994) are Pneumonia, Hypertension, PTB, Cardiovascular Arrest, Cancer, Rheumatic Heart, Acute Gastroenteritis, Cardiac Failure, Old Age, and Severe Dehydration.

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SANITATION

The Municipal government maintains a garbage collection system within and around the market area. It employs sweepers and utility workers working 12 hours a day to maintain cleanliness in the area. The waste and garbage are collected in the strategically located garbage receptacles around the market and entire Poblalcion vicinities while garbage collection truck regularly transport twice a day and eventually dumped to the municipal sanitary landfill located at barangay Pugaro where it is burned.

In the different households in the Poblalcion and other barangays, the compost pit type of discarding household waste is the most common practice. The more resourceful families use the compost to fertilizer backyard gardens or to supplement their farm inputs. The dumping method, which is an exposed piling of waste, is still being practiced by some households while others burn their garbage.

NUTRITION

Problem of nutrition is addressed to the Health Personnel from the Department of Health (DOH) the Rural Health Unit (RHU) who have been devolved to the Local Government Unit and coordinated assistance and cooperation from the Department of Social Welfare and Development. In like manner the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS), also helps solve nutritional problems through their “Operation Timbang Program”. As of 2002, the municipality in general registered a total of 659 combined severely and moderately malnourished children against 10,503 eligible populations or a percentage of 6.0%. Baarngay Babasit registered the highest incidence of malnourished children with 22% or 197 against 909 eligible populations, while barangay Pantal registered the lowest incidence of malnourished children with 6 or 1% against 424 eligible populations.The municipality has a Nutrition Officer which is under the office of the Municipal Mayor conducts plans about “Nutrition Month” Celebration who coordinates with all other offices that concerns health and nutrition.

FAMILY PLANNING

There are NA 567 and CU 2679 family planning accepters using various methods of birth control for the year 1998. Among them are the leading methods are combination Pills, Condoms, Rhythm Method, Sterilization, Abstinence, Withdrawal, IUD and many others.