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VIGAN, AUGUST 6, 2011 (BULLETIN) By FREDDIE G. LAZARO - Provincial officials
declared this province under a state of calamity due to the alarming increase in
dengue cases, Ilocos Sur Governor Luis Chavit Singson said Thursday.
Singson said he signed the resolution by members of the provincial board who
unanimously declared the province as under state of calamity status due to the
rapid increase in dengue cases.
"We immediately came out for the formal declaration of the Ilocos Sur
province as under state of calamity after we received reports regarding the
increased number of dengue cases have caused alarmed on the danger that it
brings to our constituents," Singson said of Resolution No. 113 series of 2011,
dated August 1, 2011.
"Due to the very alarming effects that this dreaded dengue disease had
brought to the communities, there's a need to declare the province in a state of
calamity to allow the calamity funds for use in the massive eradication of the
dengue carrier virus," Singson added.
As of Wednesday; the Ilocos Sur's Provincial Health Team Office (PHTO) had
already recorded at least 1,169 dengue cases with eight deaths.
The eight dengue deaths were recorded in Santo Domingo – 1 fatality; Cabugao
– 3; Santa Lucia – 2; Santa Cruz – 1; and Narvacan – 1.
Based on the records from the PHTO – Ilocos Sur; the top ten towns having the
large number of dengue cases as of August 3, 2011 were the following: Santo
Domingo – 195 dengue cases; Cabugao – 149; San Juan – 99; Vigan City – 90; Santa
Lucia – 78; Bantay – 69; Tagudin – 66; Magsingal – 51; and Candon City – 51
cases.
Provincial Dengue Operation's Officer Rogelio Varilla told, "the dengue cases
will be expected to increase from time to time as we are expecting more reports
from the different local government units in the province while we are
intensifying the monitoring of dengue cases."
Meanwhile, the provincial board noted in their resolution that the outbreak
of dengue disease in the province had "tremendously increased by 300% as
compared with the 2010 cases in Ilocos Sur, despite the preventive measure being
under taken."
To control the spread of the dengue disease, the members of the provincial
board initiated the different environmental control activities, information
campaign and the promotion of 4S Contra Dengue – such as seek and destroy
breeding places; self – protection by wearing long sleeves and pants in going ot
places infested with mosquitoes; to seek early consultation with fever of two
days and other emergency measures have also been extensively made by the
government and its health workers to prevent the spread of mosquitoes carrying
dengue in the communities.
Chief News Editor: Sol Jose Vanzi
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