SAN LUIS, Pampanga -- The provincial government on Wednesday released PHP750,400 as payment to 316 workers who culled fowls in poultry farms here following an avian flu outbreak.
Vice Governor Dennis Pineda led the distribution of the payment at the Dr. Emigdio Bondoc Convention Center here. Each worker was paid PHP P700 for each day of work. None of the workers showed symptoms of the bird flu virus.
Pineda said the provincial government hired the workers to speed up the culling of egg-laying chickens, ducks and quails in order to prevent the spread of the avian flu virus outside the one-km quarantine zone around Barangays San Carlos and Sta. Rita in this town.
"Thank you for helping save the poultry industry because culling was one way to stop the spread of the virus," said Pineda, also vice chair of the Pampanga Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) and the provincial government, assisted by 300 soldiers, destroyed a total of 470,640 chicken layers, broilers, ducks, pigeons, game fowl, native chickens and quails within the one-km quarantine zone and seven-km control area, according to Roy Abaya, director of the Department of Agriculture in Central Luzon.
The provincial government likewise deployed a medical team that conducted check-ups, vaccinated 220 workers and gave Tamiflu to residents, farm, provincial and municipal personnel involved in the culling process.
The vice governor said Governor Lilia Pineda has instructed him to prepare a cash-for-work project for farm workers who will be jobless for three months. (PNA)
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