338 bar girls STD-positive
Govt docs call for regular check on city's bar girls

By Florence F. Hibionada

Health officials have sounded anew the call for regular medical check-up on the city's entertainers and bar girls following a not-so-clean bill of health discovered on the most recent medical test conducted on the group.

With 1,205 submitting for the voluntary smearing, 338 were found positive for sexually-transmitted diseases albeit categorized as “minor.” 

In a report gathered by The News Today, 24 of the women entertainers currently have gonorrhea, eight have syphilis and the rest, afflicted with various infections and the urinary tract infection (UTI).

Treatment immediately began with the regional office of the Department of Health's Social Health Center at the helm of government response and assistance. 

The Social Health Center re-echoes the campaign for regular smearing as it reminds the city bar girls of its free daily services.  

The drive against STD proliferation has since been pushed in order to eliminate the spread and keep the commercial sex workers in good health.

Independent validation made by The News Today disclosed monthly arrivals of new bar girls mostly from nearby provinces of Western Visayas.  Others deemed of “higher class” are recruits from Metro Manila and Cebu but are known to be rigid in their medical check-ups. 

The STD affliction occurs within the first weeks of their Iloilo employ normally caused by engaging with multiple partners minus sexual protection for the bar girls.  Treatment is done in a seven- to 14-day period with the prescription of antibiotics.