SWEETIE FAITH PEPITO
Dr. Windy Balingit-Bernardo, Program Coordinator for Dengue Prevention and Control of Dagupan’s City Health Office (CHO), denied the issues concerning the dengue outbreak in the city. According to her, it is not true that the dengue cases have risen to 100% compared to the first half of last year, 2015.
Bernardo explained that despite of the increasing rates of dengue cases in Dagupan for the last few months, the overall forecast for the first half of 2016 is twenty to thirty percent lower than last year’s data.
She also cleared that once a dengue patient goes to a health care facility in Dagupan, it is still not automatically registered in the CHO census not as long as the patient is a confirmed bonafide resident of the city and if the patient has a registered place of study or work within the city.
It was Mayor Belen T. Fernandez’s idea of ordering the CHO to implement the Dengue Prevention and Control Program since March of this year through A-B-K-D or Aksyon Barangay Kontra Dengue, 4 o’clock habit and 4S activities.
CHO has already done fogging activities which helped to cluster the cases as well as the dissemination of insecticide-laced mosquito nets/curtains in 20 schools.
Bernardo explained that despite of the increasing rates of dengue cases in Dagupan for the last few months, the overall forecast for the first half of 2016 is twenty to thirty percent lower than last year’s data.
She also cleared that once a dengue patient goes to a health care facility in Dagupan, it is still not automatically registered in the CHO census not as long as the patient is a confirmed bonafide resident of the city and if the patient has a registered place of study or work within the city.
It was Mayor Belen T. Fernandez’s idea of ordering the CHO to implement the Dengue Prevention and Control Program since March of this year through A-B-K-D or Aksyon Barangay Kontra Dengue, 4 o’clock habit and 4S activities.
CHO has already done fogging activities which helped to cluster the cases as well as the dissemination of insecticide-laced mosquito nets/curtains in 20 schools.