- CHERYL G. CRUZ
The Talisay City Health Dengue Task Force has been conducting fogging operations as per requests of the barangays, schools, offices, and institutions in the continuous campaign against dengue.
On Aug. 6, the Task Force personnel conducted fogging operations in all classrooms of the Colegio San Nicolas de Tolentino-Recoletos and its grounds, as well as at the San Nicolas Parish Church, as requested by the school administrators and priests, the city said in its press release.
The fogging aims to eliminate Aedes Aegypti mosquito, or the dengue mosquito, in preparation for the opening of classes on Aug. 22, to ensure the safety of students and teachers, and for the safety of parishioners attending masses.
Talisay Mayor Neil Lizares lauded the fogging operations team, led by nurse Jerick Estrope, with Maricel Benjamin, Catherine Cuenca, Nikolai Patrick Doloritos, Ronnie Ysulan, Ruben Malan, Rowel Salazar, and Nena Orbista, as well as fogging machine operators Raymund Treyes and Mark Fernandez.
In Bacolod, the City Health Office also reported that fogging operations were done in Deca Homes, Barangay Cabug last week.
The highly-urbanized city logged 30 new dengue cases from July 17 to 23, or an increase of 226 percent compared to the same morbidity week in 2021, the Department of Health-Western Visayas said.
It added that from Jan. 1 to July 23, there were 443 dengue cases reported in Bacolod, with seven deaths.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod of Bacolod, meanwhile, requested Mayor Alfredo Benitez, through the CHO and the Department of Public Service, to mobilize the dengue task force in all 61 barangays and come up with their action plan for the prevention and control of dengue cases in the city.
The SP approved the resolution of Councilor Kalaw Puentevella, chairperson of the SP committees on Health and of the Environment, on the need for the barangay dengue task forces to take the lead in the campaign against the mosquito-borne disease, and for the DPS to provide assistance./CGC
