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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