BACOLOD CITY - The Negros Occidental Provincial Health Office (PHO) is closely monitoring a possible rise in cases of water-borne diseases after reports of an outbreak in certain areas of Western Visayas. Dr. Ernell Tumimbang, provincial health officer, said on Tuesday there have been no alarming reports of such illnesses, but they have issued an advisory to various local government units (LGUs) as part of prevention and advocacy. "We monitor if there are cases of severe gastroenteritis, cholera or typhoid fever," he told reporters. Tumimbang said that if several individuals are already affected in one or the same area, then there was a need to check the water source. He added that LGUs have sanitation inspectors that check the water supply and source. In this provincial capital, the City Health Office (CHO) said it was already on alert threshold after recording a case of cholera, an acute diarrheal infection caused by ingesting contaminated food or water last Sept.16. Dr. Gr
BACOLOD CITY -The City Health Office (CHO) raised an alert on Monday on safe food and water consumption after it confirmed a documented cholera case over the weekend. "This brings the city into the alert threshold for cholera," said Dr. Grace Tan, head of the CHO Environment Sanitation Division. Latest report showed that based on the Sept. 16 result, the patient, a 37-year-old female, was confined at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital here for five days due to severe dehydration. In Iloilo City, high cases of cholera, an acute diarrheal infection caused by ingesting contaminated food or water, has been reported in the past weeks, prompting its City Council to declare a state of calamity. Tan said that following the reported cholera case here, the CHO, together with the Department of Health, continues to monitor possible cases from communities and hospitals, and conduct water sampling. "We are taking into consideration of clustering of cases in a pa
BY CRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Bacolod City has documented one confirmed cholera case as of September 16, bringing the city into an alert threshold for cholera,
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FOGGING VS. DENGUE. Personnel of Bacolod City Health Office conducts fogging inside a public school campus days before the opening of classes last week. In its advisory on Wednesday (Aug. 31, 2022), the City Health Office urged residents to search and destroy all breeding and nesting places of mosquitoes as dengue cases increased by 240 percent in the third week of August.(File photo courtesy of Bacolod City Health Office) BACOLOD CITY - The City Health Office (CHO) is calling on residents to search and destroy all breeding and nesting places of mosquitoes as dengue cases increased by 240 percent in the third week of August. Data as of Wednesday showed the city has 667 reported cases, including nine deaths, from Jan. 1 to Aug. 20 this year. The figure is higher by 240.3 percent compared to the 196 cases with two deaths recorded during the same period in 2021. Dr. Grace Tan, head of the CHO Environment Sanitation Division, said they have observed clustering of cases in 20 out of the 61