Improper waste disposal poses health risks – CHO

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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Thursday, May 25, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Health risks come with the indiscriminate throwing of garbage.

Improper waste disposal causes drainage systems to stagnate and turn into a breeding place of dengue-carrying mosquitoes, said Dr. Grace Tan, chief of the City Health Office’s (CHO) Environmental Sanitation Division.

Tan observed that many canals in the metro were clogged.

People tend to throw their waste just anywhere thinking that somebody was going to sweep up after them, she said.

Tan advised everyone to find an appropriate receptacle for their garbage.

Dengue cases in the city this year reached 310 with five deaths as of May 20, records from the CHO’s Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit showed.

One hundred fifty-eight cases with one death were recorded in the same period in 2016.

This year the five fatalities were from Barangays Sum-ag, Singcang-Airport, Granada, Handumanan, and 14.

Villages with the most number of cases were Handumanan, 33; Mansilingan, 25; Mandalagan, 23; Granada, 22; Alijis, 21; Estefania, 20; Villamonte, 19; Sum-ag, 18; and Tangub and Vista Alegre, 17 each.

The CHO was providing larvicides to barangays that need them and conducting fogging in public elementary and high schools in time for the opening of classes next month.

While it may not protect the schools for the entire year, the fogging will abate the growth in mosquito population, said Tan.

Tan was also glad the Sangguniang Panlungsod passed a resolution urging barangays to hold “intensified information and education campaign” on dengue./PN

 

 

 

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