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Measles cases in EV continue to increase

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As the number of children getting sick by measles, the regional office of the Department of Health will conduct a massive immunization campaign. Still, there are parents who refuse that their children be vaccinated like Elena Bituin, a mother of four young children. Bituin lives at a resettlement site in North Hill Arbours in Tacloban City. (ROEL T. AMAZONA)
As the number of children getting sick by measles, the regional office of the Department of Health will conduct a massive immunization campaign. Still, there are parents who refuse that their children be vaccinated like Elena Bituin, a mother of four young children. Bituin lives at a resettlement site in North Hill Arbours in Tacloban City. (ROEL T. AMAZONA)

DOH to conduct massive immunization as a response

GOVERNMENT CENTER, PALO, Leyte – The number of persons, mostly children, being hit by measles in the region continue to increase.
As of Thursday, the regional office of the Department of Health (DOH) reported of 14 deaths out of the 382 persons who were infected by the measles virus.
As this developed, the DOH is scampering to control the increasing number of measles in the region.
Dr. Minerva Molon, DOH regional director, said that they will be conducting massive immunization campaign in the region, particularly in areas where there are high cases of measles.
“Priority of the team deployment are the areas with high number of measles cases and those with reported deaths,” Molon said.
It was learned from Dr. Molon that most of those who were hit by measles did not receive vaccination.
It was learned that even adults were hit by measles.
Dr. Exuperia Sabalo, assistant regional director of the DOH, disclosed that they have received reports that some nurses at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVRMC) and the Leyte Provincial Hospital (LPH) were infected by measles.
“We need all the help to prevent the spread of measles in the region. If you haven’t received measles immunization yet, please have yourself vaccinated,” Sabalo said.
Dr. Ofelia Absin, LPH acting provincial health officer, said that since the cases of measles keeps on increasing there are times that they had to refer the patients to other hospitals.
“It’s not only pedia but even adults are infected with measles. In fact, when our isolation ward are full.We have no choice but to refer them to other health facilities that can give them with their needed medical attention,” Absin said.
“We also vaccinated our health workers who are in the frontline especially those who are handling the isolation ward to make sure that they are protected from measles,” she added.
The increase of measles cases in the region and in other parts of the country was blamed on the refusal of parents to have their children vaccinated after the Dengvaxia controversy broke out.
The regional DOH has reported that its immunization coverage has dropped to 55 percent from 85 to 90 percent in previous campaigns.
Elena Bituin, 27, a mother of four children from North Hill Arbours, a resettlement site located in Barangay Santo Niño in Tacloban City, said that she would not allow her children to get vaccinated.
Bituin said that she lost her trust on the vaccination program not only because of Dengvaxia but also because her youngest child died on measles a year ago even the child was immunized.
“Even if they visit us, I will not allow my children to be vaccinated,” Bituin said.
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by a virus and can be transferred from person-to-person by sneezing, coughing, and close personal contact.
Symptoms include cough, runny nose, red eyes, fever, skin rashes that last for more than five days.
Complication includes diarrhea, middle ear infection, pneumonia, encephalitis, malnutrition, blindness which may eventually lead to death.

By: ROEL T. AMAZONA

LSDE February 12, 2019

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LSDE February 9, 2019

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Guiuan town tagged as region’s lobster capital

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The town of Guiuan in Eastern Samar was identified by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources as the region’s lobster capital due to its ideal location for lobster propagation.

TACLOBAN CITY — The coastal town of Guiuan, Eastern Samar has been identified by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) as the lobster capital of the Eastern Visayas region.
The town is an ideal site for lobster production because of the high likelihood that the seed settlement of the lobster species, Panulirus ornatus, extends north to the east coast of Samar, BFAR 8 (Eastern Visayas) Director Juan Albaladejo said in a phone interview.
“Traditionally, we get most of the lobster gathered from the wild in Guiuan. The town is the main trading place for these high-value aquatic organisms. It is just fitting to start our lobster culture venture by managing the population of highly sought after puerulus (post-larval stage) fry of the species,” Albaladejo said.
The fisheries bureau began training 50 fishermen from eight coastal villages on basic skills on making standardized lobster puerulus collection devices this week.
These collectors, composed of cement bag bowties, gill net panels and improvised bamboo floating frames, will be installed in areas found to be abundant with puerulus. The collectors will be used as instruments to assess the presence of lobster peurulus in selected areas.
It will also help identify the lobster species available, estimate the puerulus resource in each area, and gather the necessary data to enable sustainable management.
The training is one of the major steps in the implementation of the P10 million program.
The initiative will capture puerulus from the wild that are transported long distance by the ocean current. It is estimated that sea current brings about six million puerulus to Philippine seas every year, looking for suitable habitat.
The collected puerulus will be transferred to nursery cages until they become juvenile lobsters, which will then be used for grow-out culture. Juveniles will be reared by trained fishermen for eight months to a year to reach their minimum marketable size of 500 grams. Currently, a kilogram of lobster costs P4,800 in the market.
The initiative is in partnership with Prof. Clive Jones of Australia’s James Cook University, and Winrock International, specifically on feeding trials using pellet feeds at BFAR – Guiuan Marine Fisheries Development Center in Eastern Samar.
The aquaculture project will be patterned after successful lobster farming off Dinagat Island, which is also being supported by the fisheries bureau.
(SARWELL Q. MENIANO/PNA)

Popcom plans to encourage 6 million women as family planning acceptors

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Juan Antonio Perez III

TACLOBAN CITY- The government under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte will be pushing more on the campaign on family planning program.
This was disclosed by Juan Antonio Perez III, executive director of the Commission on Population Development(CPD), formerly the Commission on Population, who added that they are targeting at least 5 million mothers to be ‘acceptors’ of their family planning program.
Perez, in a press conference on Monday(Feb.11), said that by meeting their target, which is supposed to happen in 2020 the year Pres. Duterte is to step down from Malacañang, they will help reduce the country’s fertility rate to just 2.1 percent.
At present, the country’s fertility rate stands at 2.7 percent. Fertility rate means the number of children who would be born per woman (or per 1,000 women) if she is to pass through the childbearing years.
And as part of this scheme to reach their target, their office through its mother unit, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), and the Department of Health, will be issuing a joint memorandum circular outlining how their target could be achieve.
“We have to double our effort on family planning and we plan to include at least one million new acceptors to our family planning program over the next four years. We’ll add four to five million new acceptors,” Perez said.
“We will seek the support of the President to continue to strengthen the family planning program by putting more resources to the (program),”the population executive director added.
Perez said that they need at least P1.5 billion funding for them to carry out their family planning program, to include in improving the number of family planning acceptors.
Last year, their office was able to convinced 1.2 million mothers to join their family planning program of which they were able to identify 250,000 women who have unmet needs.
Unmet need means couples and women who are fecund and sexually active and want to limit or space their children but are not using any modern method of contraception.
According to Perez, the goal of their office now that it is attached to NEDA, the office that shapes the economic policy of the government, is to help the country become stable or developed economically.
Thus, with a lower fertility rate, the couple, particularly the mother, would become a productive member of the society, contributing to the country’s economic development, the CPD executive director said.
Perez said that they are also seeking support and cooperation from local government units and civil society organizations and even the Church on this campaign.
The population official stressed that the Church will find no reason why it will not support the campaign saying they are not promoting any method that could lead to abortion.
The Catholic Church in the country has been opposing to the government’s family planning program saying it promotes abortion, a claim the government has denied.
(JOEY A. GABIETA)

DPWH-Biliran DEO to strictly impose a 15-ton weight limit for vehicles passing Biliran Bridge

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As a preventive measure, the Department of Public Works and Highways in Biliran province will only allow vehicles with a capacity of 15 ton weight to pass the Biliran Bridge.
As a preventive measure, the Department of Public Works and Highways in Biliran province will only allow vehicles with a capacity of 15 ton weight to pass the Biliran Bridge.

NAVAL, Biliran-The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) – Biliran District Engineering Office (DEO) informs the travelling public to strictly observe the maximum 15-ton allowable weight limit for vehicles passing Biliran Bridge.
District Engineer David P. Adongay Jr. said that Biliran DEO is conducting a load monitoring checkpoint for all equipment and heavy loading vehicles crossing the bridge for safety precaution.
To prevent deterioration, damage or any danger of collapse of bridge, Adongay said that they have deployed maintenance personnel to guard the bridge 24 hours against overloading heavy vehicles.
Meanwhile, Engr. Glenda G. Dagalea, chief maintenance engineer, said that they only allow heavy equipment vehicles to cross Biliran Bridge one at a time to preserve the old structured bridge.
For hauling equipment vehicles, a maximum of 250 bags of cement is allowed to be loaded on a single truck and a maximum of 16 cubic meter for hauling aggregates (sand and gravel).
“More than the allowed capacity, should be unloaded,” said Dagalea.
“We need to protect the bridge but most importantly the lives of the people and the convenience of the travelling public, so I am asking the drivers of heavy vehicles to have discipline and cooperate.” Dagalea added.
The Biliran Bridge is the only access by land of the entire island-province of Biliran to the island of Leyte, and practically, of the entire Philippines.
Completed around 1975, this bridge is about 120 meters long at its central span, held in place by an arched steel structure which hovers above a short and narrow channel of water measuring about 100 meters wide at low tide. (PR)

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