Tigdas, tipdas or by any other local name, the name of the disease is still measles.
It is highly contagious and used to be fatal but with the advent of modern medicine, measles is now preventable through vaccination.
Inabanga now under Mayor Jose Jono Jumamoy, his mother Josephine Socorro before him, and her husband Jose before her, has always been a child-friendly municipality.
Jumamoy the son has made it a point to carry on the tradition even if he himself, at 21 years old, graduated not too long ago from childhood.
The mayor and Dr. Lilibeth Melicor, municipal health officer, led the mass campaign for parents to submit their children to measles vaccination. The massive vaccination started October 15 and will end on November 15.
To ensure that majority of the children here are vaccinated, Rural Health Unit personnel made extra effort: they went to the barangays to ensure that all eligible children are immunized.
The local government unit (LGU) dropped other major activities in favor of the immunization to protect children from the disease.
"Health is wealth. We must protect our health especially those of our children because they are the hope of our fatherland. They are our future," Jumamoy philosophized.
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