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City
Mayor Dan Lim and pesticides specialist Arnulfo Arausa
discuss the conduct of fogging operations in an effort
to control incidence of dengue while stagnant water as
shown at right foto is the subject of search and destroy
operations to eliminate breeding grounds of mosquitoes.
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Dengue
kills 6;
hits 370 others
By
KIT BAGAIPO
A
provincewide dengue alert was launched Thursday with
the continued increase in the incidence of dengue fever
with already nine reported dead and 370 others stricken.
The
Department of Health (DOH) Regional Health Emergency
Management Services revealed that the latest fatality
was a fifteen year old boy in Catagbacan, Loon town
who died last Thursday.
DOH-7
coordinator Dr. Expedito Medalla and regional health
officials went to the towns of Jagna and Dauis last
Friday, where high incidence of dengue was reported.
Dengue
has claimed the lives of Christian Digal of barangay
Cambakay, Batuan town, Johnny Pinsoy, 3 years old of
Tinago, Dauis town; Christine Fostanes, 5 years old
of Airport Road, this city; Faith Cimafranca, 6 years
old of barangay Mansasa, this city; and Franz Coto,
6 years old of Butalid Street, this city.
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Names
of four other victims have yet to be released by DOH-7.
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Medalla
called for the re-activation of Barangay Health Emergency
Response Teams and the creation of Barangay Dengue Brigades.
Barangay
captains and health authorities here in the city, during
an emergency meeting Wednesday, have agreed to create
dengue brigades.
The
groups will be tasked to undertake massive information
drive and act as search and destroy teams in eliminating
breeding grounds of the dengue carrying aedes aegypti
mosquito.
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City
Mayor Dan Lim gave a go signal for fogging operations to start
immediately after a meeting with Fertilizer and Pesticides
Authority (FPA) officer Arnulfo Arauza last Wednesday.
The
FPA has assured the mayor that the chemicals used in fogging
operations are environmentally safe and will be on an ultra
low volume.
The
mayor likewise offered to provide financial assistance to
all those admitted in city hospitals due to dengue.
Since
last week, hospital wards here have been filled with dengue
patients.
PHO
statistician Merlyn Nemenzo bared to the Chronicle that since
July 1, there have been 65 cases of dengue surpassing the
number of victims in the month of June.
DENGUE
ALERT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
City
Interim Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Elpidio Jala issued
an advisory to all school principals here to ensure environmental
sanitation in school premises.
Provincial
Health Office records showed that children aged 0 to 14 are
most prone to dengue fever.
Since
January, three have died of dengue here in the city.
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