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DOH-7 reports 87 percent hike in dengue cases this year

CEBU CITY, Dec. 29 (PNA) -- The Department of Health (DOH) in Region 7 has reported an 87 percent increase in the number of dengue cases in the region this year, reaching a total of 26,670, with 238 deaths as of Dec. 24.

A total of 14,247 cases and 82 deaths related to dengue were reported over the same period last year.

Rennan Cimafranca of the DOH 7 Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (RESU) said that while the number of dengue cases and deaths continued to rise, they also noticed a downtrend in admissions in the last quarter of the year.

Based on DOH-RESU 7’s latest report, majority of the dengue cases and fatalities in the region come from Cebu City with 3,933 cases and 28 deaths, followed by Mandaue City with 1,554 cases and 24 deaths and Lapu-Lapu City with 1,137 cases and 17 deaths.

Aside from the cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu, included in the top 10 local government units with the most number of dengue cases are the cities of Dumaguete and Bais in Negros Oriental; the cities of Carcar, Talisay and Toledo and the towns of Consolacion and Balamban in Cebu.

Cimafranca said that based on their monitoring, they noticed a downtrend of dengue hospital admissions during the last quarter of the year.

He said they noticed a spike in dengue cases during the middle of the year, but slowly going down during the last two quarters of this year.

Cimafranca said 2016 was a very particular year for dengue because of the sudden weather changes that started with El Niño during the first quarter of this year. (PNA)

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