The statistics of the Provincial Health
Office of Aklan shows a continuous increasing trend in the number of recorded
dengue cases.
This is according to Aklan Provincial
Health Officer II, Dr. Victor Santa Maria.
He however said that they are expecting
that this statistic will go down on the last week of September as compared to
their observation in 2011.
Dr. Santa Maria said that the months of
August and September are the most critical period of this disease, and as it is
the rainy season, there had been an increase of dengue cases.
In line with this, Santa Maria reminds
the public especially the barangays to maintain not only the cleanliness of the
surroundings but to get rid of the potential breeding places of mosquitoes.
Meanwhile he also revealed that based
on the weekly monitoring they have conducted from January until this August there
have been more than 200% increase in the number of dengue victims in the
province as compared to the same time in 2011.
Nonetheless he said that in spite the surge
of dengue cases this year, he clarified that the Provincial Hospital of Aklan
did not encounter a problem such as the overcrowding of patients.
No comments:
Post a Comment