THE city council is set to approve the Sanitation Code of Dagupan by December this year.

According to Councilor Jesus Canto, chair of the committee on health and sanitation, the sanitation plan for the city, designed with the help of the Southeast Asia Sustainable Sanitation (SUSIA) program, will soon be presented to the city council for adoption as the Sanitation of Dagupan City.

“We are very lucky because we will able to re duce the mortality rate of our population through the sanitation plan designed with the help of SUSIA,” said Canto, former director of the Region 1 Medical Center.

He said the sanitation plan will ensure that every Dagupeno will have access to clean and potable water and address the elimination of arthropods or insects, including parasites that carry diseases.

The proposed sanitation code emphasizes continuing health education, especially in the barangays, so that the people will thoroughly clean their premises and observe hygienic practices as a common habit daily.

“We are 10 per cent sure that if the Sanitation Code is implemented, there will be significant reduction in the mortality of the people of Dagupan,” he said.

Calling on his fellow city legislators to help him pass the Sanitation Code, Canto said this will be the first sanitation code of its kind to be introduced in the city and elsewhere in the province.

The code, Canto said, will incorporate the ordinance passed last year imposing fines and imprisonment on people spitting in public, which is another way to prevent the spread of diseases.—LM

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