GASTROENTERITIS UPDATE. The City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU) report as of Tuesday (Sept. 20, 2022) shows 93 percent of the acute gastroenteritis cases in Iloilo City have recovered. There were two additional recorded deaths, however, increasing the fatalities to 13.(Photo screengrab from CESU report) ILOILO CITY - The city government of Iloilo is eyeing to put an end to open defecation practice in barangays as one of the permanent solutions to the acute gastroenteritis (AGE) problem. City Health Office Medical Officer IV Roland Jay Fortuna on Wednesday said their sanitary division has an ongoing evaluation of barangays on zero open defecation (ZOD) although it was temporarily stopped to focus on AGE and monkeypox. "We continue to campaign for zero open defecation. Last time we awarded I think 20 barangays while evaluation is ongoing for the rest of other barangays. If possible we would like to comply the zero open defecation in all the 180 barangays," he said in
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ILOILO CITY – The province of Iloilo logged 19 new cases of the water-borne disease acute gastroenteritis.
The Iloilo Provincial Health Office (PHO) said that there are 36 cases as of Sunday, Sept. 11.Twenty were admitted in the hospital while 10 are at home. Six have recovered.
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NON-COMPULSORY. Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Jr. said on Friday (Sept. 9, 2022) that the use of masks when outdoors is optional. In a press conference, he said the province has low cases of Covid-19, low health care utilization rate, and high vaccination accomplishment.(PNA file photo) ILOILO CITY - Iloilo province is now under the new normal with the optional wearing of face masks when outdoors. The optional mask use is mandated in Section 2 of Executive Order 260-G signed by Governor Arthur Defensor Jr. on September 7, which also extended the province's Alert Level 1 status until September 15. Defensor, in a press conference on Friday, said the national government, through the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, has already made a pronouncement about the voluntary wearing of face masks in open spaces. He also cited as the basis for allowing the optional use of face masks the low cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), low hospital
DENGUE REPORT. Iloilo Provincial Health Office head Dr. Maria Socorro Quinon said deaths due to dengue cases in the province have increased to 19 with the addition of two new fatalities recorded in August. She said on Thursday (Sept. 8, 2022) that most of the cases are those aged 1 to 10 years old.(PNA file photo) ILOILO CITY - The Iloilo Provincial Health Office (IPHO) is urging the public not to be complacent and continue to observe the "4S" strategy to combat dengue that has claimed 19 lives out of the 2,291 cases it recorded from Jan. 1 to Sept. 3 period. "Unfortunately we have 19 deaths; the latest was the five-year-old from San Enrique who died Aug. 28 and a 10-year-old from Guimbal who also died last Aug. 18," said IPHO head Dr. Maria Socorro Quinon in a media interview on Thursday. The "4S" strategy includes search and destroy, seek early medication, self-protection, and say "yes" to fogging when there is an impending outbreak. Data from