by Gay B. Gaspay
Tacloban City – “Protect our children from DENGUE” was one of the strong statement made by Tacloban City Mayor Alfred S. Romualdez during an interview held recently at the City Mayor’s Office.
According to Mayor Alfred, “ I call on the parents to help clean our environment and protect our children by instructing them to go home at ones after school and not to play anywhere now that dengue is a threat”.
The children are the best victims the dengue mosquito would love to nibble. And they are the vulnerable ones, who plays in dark places and corner of the house where mosquitoes dwell.
Mayor Romualdez further promote that Self protection, the second S in managing dengue fever should be taken into consideration. Self protection includes wearing clothes to cover exposed area of the body such as wearing long pants or jogging pants, long sleeves shirts or blouses, applying anti-repellant lotion and screening the house.
If we just follow the preventive measures to be applied for, to fight dengue, then there’s a big possibility that we can get rid of this dengue fever, Mayor Alfred said.
Mayor Alfred reiterated his concern to be clean always in deeds and ways. Start throwing empty bottles and tin cans, disposing unused old tires, cover containers with stock waters since all these mentioned are good breeding places of AEDES AEGYPTI a female breeding mosquitoes who after biting an infected person will look for breeding places, otherwise they die 7 days after.
Mayor Romualdez upon knowing that Tacloban has the highest cases of Dengue fever in Easterrn Visayas did an all out massive campaign and conducted a Search & Destroy operation to extinguish the breeding places of dengue carrying mosquito, the AEDES AEGYPTI.
The City Health Office has recorded 4 hotspot areas in Tacloban City where cases of dengue fever were quite high, namely: San Jose, V&G Subdivision, Sagkahan and the two Kassel subdivision in Abucay. And this hotspot places, Mayor Romualdez personally supervised the anti- dengue task force composed of city employees and officials and socio-civic organizations to do the Search and Destroy operation.
He even mobilized all Tacloban Barangay Health Workers (BHW) of the City Health Office, Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS) of the City Nutrition Office and the Barangay Service Point Officers (BSPO) of the City POPCOM to help him in checking, investigating, reporting, action and monitoring of dengue cases in their respective barangay.
Mayor Alfred likewise provided the Tacloban City Hospital with facilities and supplies needed in attending to patient with signs & symptoms of dengue fever.
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