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Alarmed by the increasing number of dengue cases and related deaths, fifty barangays in the coastal and urban areas will join a cleanup drive in Cebu City.
Vice Mayor Michael Rama, chairman of the Coastal Management Board, said several non-government organizations, schools, other civic groups and the Philippine National Police would also participate in the activity.
Rama said the participants will be cleaning their barangays and dispose of empty containers, used tires, empty bottles and other materials that could be possible breeding grounds of the dengue-carrying mosquitoes.
Rama said the cleanup drive should be done in all barangays.
He pointed out that most dengue cases were not recorded from depressed barangays but in suburban areas as well.
Rama said barangays Pasil, Suba, Ermita and Sawang Calero do not belong to the top barangays with high dengue cases and related deaths.
The Cebu City government announced that it wants to focus its anti-dengue campaign in the Pardo district where dengue cases continue to increase.
As of Feb. 27, the City Health Department has reported a total of 357 dengue cases and 11 deaths.
Dengue cases are especially high in barangays Talamban, 26 cases and 2 deaths; Guadalupe, 21 cases and 2 deaths; Labangon, 21 cases; Inayawan, 21 cases; Mabolo, 19 cases; and Tisa, 19 cases and 1 death.
Bulacao has a total of 12 dengue cases and 1 death; Poblacion Pardo, 11 cases; and barangays Basak Pardo, Cogon Pardo and Mambaling with 10 cases each.
Councilor Christopher Alix, chairperson of the committee on health, reported to the council on Wednesday that Labangon is again on the list of top barangays with dengue cases.
Labangon topped the dengue affected barangays in January. The barangay was eliminated from the list in the early part of February.
Alix said that other than the city government initiating a simultaneous clean-up drive in barangays, the city government has also been spraying chemicals in possible dengue-carrying mosquito breeding sites. Reporter Doris C. Bongcac, Correspondent Chris A. Ligan
