The Zamboanga City Health Office. (PNA file photo)
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The City Health Office (CHO) is training farmer-volunteers on proper chemical misting to help prevent dengue-carrier mosquitoes from breeding in their respective community.
Dr. Dulce Amor Miravite, CHO chief, underscored Monday the need for an intensified campaign against dengue, cases of which continue to soar.
CHO has recorded 2,377 dengue cases with 19 deaths since January. The barangays with the most dengue cases are Sta. Maria, Pasonanca, Tetuan, Putik, San Roque, Mercedes, Tumaga, Calarian, Divisoria, and Guiwan.
The first batch of farmer-volunteers who underwent training on proper chemical misting Monday are from Barangay Boalan.
Miravite called on all barangays to undertake their own strategies and to join in the city-wide campaign to control the spread of dengue in the city.
Meanwhile, Dr. Ma. Ivy Rozeth Itrurralde, city epidemiology and surveillance unit head, said Dengue Serotype 1 is the most prevalent strain in the city.
“We sent 43 blood samples to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and 24 yielded positive for dengue,” Iturralde said.
She said 20 of the 24 samples yielded positive for Dengue Serotype 1, two for Dengue Serotype 4, and one each for Serotype 2 and 3. (With reports from R.G. Antonet A. Go/PNA)
