HEALTHCARE
  
              Health services are rendered  by one government 75-bed hospital, the Dr. Jose Rizal Memorialt Hospital, with 86 health and auxiliary personnel. This also supervises three rural health units in the Municipalities of La Libertad, Rizal and Sibutad.  
   
               The City Health Office also renders with medical services. There are 21 barangay-based health centers and 450 barangay health workers.  
  
               The crude birth rate of Dapitan City is 38.8 (per 1,000 population) and the crude death rate is 4.71 (per 1,000) and infant mortality rate is 13.7 (per 1,000) in 1998.  
  
               Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) is the leading cause of morbidity while bronchopneumonia is the number one cause of mortality.  
  
              In the 1998 Operation Timbang Project of the City Nutrition Office; these are the following data on nutrition  
     Þ   pre-schoolers, 0.4 % severe, 8.5 % moderate, 
            36% mild, 52 % normal and 3.5% overweight. 
      Þ   school children, 0.06 % severe, 7.9 % moderate,
            23.5 % mild, 62.6 % normal and 1.26 %
            ove rweight.
   
    

  DR. JOSE RIZAL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL