City’s dengue cases continue to drop, affected barangays down from last week

Dengue cases in the city continue to fall with confirming data, as reported by City Health Services Office head Dr. Rowena Galpo during the management committee (Mancom) meeting last Tuesday morning.

The data was presented to Mayor Benjamin Magalong, City Administrator Engr. Bonifacio dela Pena, department and concerned division heads at city hall. 

There are now 23 barangays with clusters of the dreaded mosquito-borne disease, from the 32 reported from the past week. The decrease is attributed to health authorities and barangay officials’ monitoring, regular clean-ups at grass roots level, Oplan Taob and constant reminders to constituents to keep their household and surroundings clean.               

As to records, morbidity week 44 which ends Nov. 7 has 3,197 reported Dengue cases in the city, with 73 new ones and 4 deaths. The same period last year yielded 1,152 cases and 9 deaths.

The cases this year are now in a cyclical pattern with similar rise and fall of data for the past five years, Dr. Galpo said. Cases from last year also conform to a pattern of increase and decrease of cases.  

For the used tires, a total of 3,133 were picked up by the General Services Office (GSO), for proper disposal or for livelihood purposes. Tires are supposedly venues for mosquito eggs, up to their hatching, thus efforts are exerted for their disposal.

As for Monkeypox, Dr. Galpo reported that the cases also dropped globally; with 67,556 cases and 27 deaths, and 106 countries reporting the presence of Monkeypox.

From reports, it was known that the European and America region is at high risk; the African-Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asian areas are at moderate risk; the Western Pacific region at low risk. Over-all, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the global risk is moderate. – JGF