By Ian John M. Lagare
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (01 April 2014) – City Mayor Ronnel Rivera has declared war against the deadly mosquito transmitted disease – Dengue.
Dr. Eduardo Sandig, head of the City Health Office (CHO), said that Mayor Rivera ordered the CHO and other related agencies to help prevent the rising number of Dengue cases in the city
The mayor’s order came after he saw last year’s report which posted a 231% increase of recorded cases compared to 2012.
Sandig indicated that under the banner program of “CLEAN GenSan” (Creating a Livable Environment for All Generals towards Nation-building) of Mayor Rivera, the CHO is required to have functional health programs that would mitigate Dengue and other preventable ailments.
As of March 2014, the city has recorded 344 cases of Dengue six of which resulted to deaths.
“Summer is when mosquitoes are very ‘hot’. They are more susceptible to bite people on this period of the year compared to other seasons,” Sandig explained.
Dr. Sandig also boasted that Barangay West, one of the hotspots for Dengue cases, has still zero reported incidents for this year.
“This success was due to the information dissemination drive we give to the constituents of Barangay West. Aside from that, we also intensify the implementation of ‘search and destroy’ operation to demolish possible breeding grounds for mosquitoes,” the doctor said
CHO and other related agencies will be going from barangay-to-barangay in their information dissemination campaign and will proceed to different public schools in the city to educate the people on how to combat Dengue-carrying mosquitoes.
“We are also hopeful that we can bring anti-Dengue programs in the regular Barangayan activities of Mayor Ronnel C. Rivera so that we can inculcate to the people the preventive ways of hampering Dengue,” he added.
In the 2014 budget as indicated in the Executive Legislative Agenda (ELA), the CHO has an allocation of P12 million.
“With the support of Mayor Ronnel C. Rivera, we can ensure our constituents that we will do everything to make GenSan a healthy and conducive place to live,” Dr. Sandig said. (GENSAN CPIO/Ian John M. Lagare)
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