By MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City — Dengue cases here dropped by 96 percent, records from the City Health Office (CHO) showed.
For the period January to first week of July, dengue cases dropped to 74 with one death this year from 1,872 with six deaths last year, CHO head Dr. Salome Biñas said.
Biñas attributed this to CHO’s “year-round campaign, including massive information and awareness drive,” against the disease.
Most of the dengue victims were children aged 1 to 10 years old, Teresita Gonzalez, CHO’s dengue coordinator, said, citing the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit.
Biñas said one way to help further decrease dengue cases in the city is to encourage schools to plant citronella and lemon grass.
Bacolod villages with dengue cases were Banago and Villamonte, nine each; Alijis and Taculing, six each; Estefania and Mandalagan, five each; Mansilingan, four; Bata, Granada, and Sum-ag, three each;
Barangay 1, 4, 10, 28, and Handumanan, two each; and Alangilan, 2, 14, 17, 31, 35, Felisa, Punta Taytay, Singcang, Tangub, and Vista Alegre, one each./PN
