TO CONTAIN POLIO: STATE OF HEALTH EMERGENCY MAY BE NEEDED
House Deputy Majority Leader Rep. Bernadette Herrera, has called for a more aggressive response to the growing public health threat of polio, especially in poverty-stricken and polio-hit areas of Mindanao, after Health Secretary Francisco Duque revealed that there are two more suspected cases of polio in Mindanao, in addition to the three new confirmed polio cases and the first confirmed case in Datu Piang, Maguindanao.
“There are now at least four children with polio in Mindanao making us inclined to believe that the current measures may not be enough. Given the seriousness of the growing polio threat to public health, more aggressive and pro-active steps, including a possible ‘localized state of health emergency’ may be in order, which the DOH Secretary has the power to do under our administrative and public health laws,” said Herrera, who in her private capacity as a Governor of Rotary International here in the Philippines, is coordinating efforts of Rotary Clubs against polio.
The Department of Health is scheduled to conduct a polio vaccination campaign from November 25 to December 7 in Mindanao, as well as in Metro Manila.
“Rotary Clubs in various locations will stand side by side with the DOH to administer the polio vaccines as we have done this year and in years past,” the Bagong Henerasyon Party-list lawmaker said. (END)
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