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By Manila Bulletin

As part of its intensified fight against dengue, Bohol is scheduling a simultaneous clean-up drive later this week in an effort to better protect the province against the mosquito-borne disease. During the joint League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) and the Vice Mayors League of the Philippines - Bohol Chapters meeting, local officials led by Governor Edgar M.

Chatto said a simultaneous clean up drive aimed at ridding mosquitoes their breeding places in communities all over the province will be launched on Friday. Under the supervision of the mayors, people from communities in the towns and city all over Bohol will be seen going out of their workplaces in the afternoon of September 17 to do one thing, that is, spill out the contents of all water-filled containers that could serve as a breeding place for the aedes egypti mosquito in the province. Health authorities all over Central Visayas who noted an increase of 1,229 cases of dengue monitored between January to September this year, have raised an alarm, for fear of an eventual outbreak of dengue, if measures to stop the disease continue to be unimplemented.

With the disease already claiming eight deaths at least, and countless other patients suspected or confirmed to be afflicted with dengue in hospitals from January to August, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Reymoses Cabagnot said neglecting the threat of the disease can be disastrous. Bohol dengue cases, most of these seen in Tagbilaran City, has declared the province to be the second highest in the region in terms of monitored dengue cases. Health authorities all over Bohol have long been urging people to be very cautious about contracting the disease, but despite these warnings, many patients have been appearing in the province's hospitals.

The Bohol governor has emphasized that cleaning up surroundings and destroying mosquito-breeding grounds like receptacles collecting water remain the most effective way communities can help in dengue prevention.

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