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Watch those flower vases, water dispensers and refrigerators.
This was the reminder of Cebu City Councilor Gerardo Carillo to the public to prevent dengue in the wake of the rainsy season.
Carillo, Cebu City Disaster Coordinating Council action officer, appealed to the public to clean their surroundings to prevent the mosquitos, which are carrier of the virus.
The Cebu City Epidemiology Statistics and Surveillance Unit of the City Health Department (CHD) recorded eight deaths since the start of the year. The latest death was one of the 32 dengue cases last month.
Carillo reiterated his warning that dengue posed a more dangerous threat to the city than the A (H1N1) virus.
Carillo cited the dengue mapping conducted by the city government in the barangays this year as a way to find the breeding areas of the dengue-carrying mosquitoes.
Carillo said the study found out that the breeding places of some dengue-carrying mosquitoes were inside the homes.
The mosquitoes breed in water from the flower vases, refrigerator drain pans, and even in water dispensers, he said.
Aside from the dengue mapping, the city government team will continue the information drive to the community as well as visit houses in sitios that are difficult to reach.
Carillo said the info drive on dengue was done hand in hand with the A(H1N1) information campaign.
He said this measures were intensified in barangays Camputhaw and Labangon, which had the most number of dengue cases.
Meanwhile, the Cebu City Health Department is monitoring two students of a city public high school, who were not able to attend class because of fever.
The school principal confirmed to TV Patrol Central Visayas the students having fever.
Dr. Fe Cabugao of the City Health Department, who was visiting the school for the dengue awareness campaign, said the department was monitoring the two cases and would try to determine if the fever was caused by an ordinary flu or the A (HIN1) flu virus or dengue.
Cabugao advised the sick students' parents to visit the barangay health centers.
Cabugao gave the advise to check if it is dengue fever or not, they have to undergo test to check their platelets, CBC, and hermatocret.
She said that there are seven satellite centers where the patients can go to for free tests for dengue fever – the health centers in Talamban, Guadalupe, Mabolo, Pardo, Luz, Pari-an, and the Cebu City Medical Center.
Cabugao said that if the patient suspects that he is infected by the A H1N1 virus, they must first go over the checklist: If they have gone to other countries recently, if they have family member who just arrived from abroad, or if they have close contact with a person sick of A(H1N1).
