Dengue cases continue to rise
LINGAYEN—The Provincial Health Office (PPO) has expressed alarm over the rising cases of dengue which already killed two children and downed 541 people from May to July this year.
Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, said this is 15 per cent higher than the number of cases registered in the same period last year at 510.
“We worry because the big rains have yet to come and yet we have this big number of dengue cases already,” De Guzman said.
The two fatalities so far are one from San Fabian who died at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in San Carlos City and the other from Binalonan who died in a private hospital.
A surveillance team has been deployed by PPO in the two villages where the two fatalities came from to instruct residents to undertake a serious cleanliness and sanitation drive to clear breeding places of dengue-carrying mosquitoes.
De Guzman revealed that 16 more persons confined at the PPH, most of them children, are being observed for dengue although there is still the possibility that they could be suffering from other illnesses.
The PPO identified the following towns and cities as under close watch for dengue: Anda, Alaminos, Bayambang, Binalonan, Bugallon, Binmaley, Lingayen, San Carlos, Urdaneta, Rosales and Binalonan.
Dagupan, where there are also many reported dengue cases, is not included in the list because it is not under the PPO’s coverage.
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