The Municipal Health Office (MHO) is conducting a daily information drive on cholera and other food-borne and water-borne diseases, in all 23 barangays of E. B. Magalona from October 17 to November 3.

The Municipal Health Office of E. B. Magalona conducted an information drive on cholera and other food-borne and water-borne diseases, in Barangays 1 and 2, both in the poblacion, Monday [Oct. 17]./MHO PHOTOS

Municipal Health Officer Dr. Edmundo Janeo Jr. said the MHO team is led by Dr. Frayne Marie Tampus, a physician of Department of Health -Doctors to the Barrios assigned to E. B. Magalona, and Nurse Armalene Yocson, with the assistance of nurses and midwives assigned in the respective barangays.

The information campaign, which emphasizes on prevention and control of cholera, diarrhea, and other food-borne and water-borne diseases by practicing food safety and water sanitation, is being held in barangay halls and barangay covered courts, Janeo added.

Included in the information drive is the campaign for COVID-19 booster vaccination.

The MHO team had already conducted an information drive in Barangays 1 and 2, both in the poblacion, Monday [Oct. 17]; in San Jose and Sto. Nino—Tuesday [Oct. 18]; and Tabigue and Damgo today [Oct. 19].

Other schedules are: Oct. 20- Tuburan and Latasan; Oct. 21- Alacaygan; Oct. 22- Alicante and Manta-angan; Oct. 25- Pasil and Nanca; Oct. 26- Tomongtong and Gahit; Oct. 27—Madalag and Sitio Roma (Brgy. Batea); Oct. 28- Batea proper, Sitio Pasil, and Canlusong; Oct. 31—Tanza and Cudangdang; and Nov. 3- San Isidro and Consing.

OUTBREAK

On Monday [Oct. 17], Mayor Marvin Malacon had declared a cholera outbreak in three barangays – Batea, 3 (Poblacion), and Tanza—after the town had recorded four cases of cholera.

Tanza has two cases, where one patient died, while Batea and 3 (Poblacion) have one case each.

“Rest assured that your municipal officials and concerned agencies, including the Municipal Health Office, are on top of the situation,” Malacon had said in an earlier statement.

The MHO had submitted water samples from three barangays with cholera cases to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Muntinlupa last Friday, and the results of the bacteriological tests are expected to be released this week, Janeo said.

The MHO is also in the process of collecting water samples from the remaining 20 barangays this week and will be submitting them to RITM as well, he added.

Meanwhile, Malacon appealed to residents to exercise more caution in their food and water consumption.

In case of LBM (loose bowel movement) or vomiting, go to the hospital or seek assistance from barangay officials or the MHO and we are ready to help you, Malacon stressed.*