Guv places Capiz under state of impending dengue outbreak
ROXAS CITY – The rising dengue fever deaths and cases in Capiz including those in Roxas City has prompted Gov. Victor Tanco Sr. to declare a state of an impending outbreak of dengue cases in the province.
A report from Capiz Epidemiological Surveillance and Response Unit revealed that there are already eight casualties of dengue fever and 1,044 victims from January to July 17 in Capiz.
In a three-page Executive No. 38, series of 2010, the governor directed the chief executives of the local government units, barangay officials and other government officials concerned to take urgent, necessary appropriate actions to avert a full-blown dengue fever epidemic.
Tanco also directed all 16 towns and one component city to immediately create a task force composed of composite team to prepare and outrightly implement a working plan aimed at preventing and controlling the occurrence and prevalence of dengue fever through their respective rural health units and barangay officials.
The said composite team will provide advisory guidelines and materials down to the household level with prime purpose of destroying the breeding places of mosquito- dengue fever carriers.
Dengue is a mosquito-borne arbovirus that causes infection to humans, which in recent years has become a major international public health concern.
According to medical records, dengue fever is a kind of viral infection, and the transmitter of said disease, is a day-biting mosquito which lays eggs in clear and stagnant water.
Of the eight deaths, three were reported in Roxas City, two in President Roxas; and one each in Ivisan, Pilar and Panay.
Among the 1,044 cases, Roxas City has the highest number with 292; Cuartero, 57; Dao, 82, Dumalag, 72; Dumarao, 25; Ivisan, 19; Jamindan, 34; Maayon, 42; Mambusao, 37; Panay, 56; Panitan, 35; Pilar, 65; Pontevedra, 82; President Roxas, 62; Sapian, 3; Sigma, 27; and Tapaz, 16.
In hospital admissions, Capiz Emmanuel Hospital has the highest patients with 374; Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital, 167; St. Anthony College, 146;
Dao District Hospital, 87, and Bailan District Hospital, 72.
