Mindanaotoday.com | Zamboanga Peninsula logs 3,743 dengue cases: DOH-9
By: Teofilo Garcia, Jr.
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Zamboanga Peninsula has tallied 3,743 dengue cases since January this year, the Department of Health-Region 9 (DOH-9) reported Friday.
Dr. Joshua Brillantes, DOH-9 director, said this city has the highest number of dengue cases in the region with 2,209.
Trailing the city is Zamboanga del Sur province with 605 cases.
Brillantes has called on the public to support barangay fumigation activities in collaboration with their respective village health offices.
“The fight against dengue is the concern of everybody. It is not only the fight of the health office and barangay leaders but it also includes the residents,” he said.
Meanwhile, the local government of Zamboanga has conducted vector-borne disease prevention and control activities to stop the continuing rise of dengue cases.
The activities included the mobilization of the community to implement the “4S” strategy, particularly on the weekly search and destroy of all types of breeding sites, natural or man-made; declogging and cleaning operations on canals, and reactivation of the barangay anti-dengue teams.
Dr. Dulce Amor Miravite, city health officer, said their office also conducted fogging activities and entomological surveys in barangays with the highest incidence rate.
Miravite said the district health centers and barangay health stations have been advised to promptly report new cases in the barangay, and daily dengue surveillance monitoring among hospitals and health centers, among others.
She said a house-to-house entomological survey was conducted in the eight barangays with the highest incidence rate of dengue. (PNA)
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