ANTIPOLO CITY - As this city and other parts of the country battle the spread of dengue hemorrhagic fever, police here came up with their own contribution to the community to help arrest the spread of the mosquito-borne disease. Superintendent Manuel Pion and the men and women of the Antipolo City Police Station volunteered Friday their services, not as a policeman, but as street sweepers and clearers of canals and other waterways. Armed with broomsticks and dustpans, the police officers conducted declogging of ditches and creeks in Sitio Pulong Banal.
Police Officer 3 Annalisa Reyes of the Police-Community Relations Section collected several sacks of assorted garbage, mostly composed of plastics and fallen tree branches and dried leaves. Police said some of the bystanders even joined in the clean-up drive knowing that their act of volunteerism will benefit the whole community in their effort to rid their village of the disease-carrying mosquito eggs and larvae. Meanwhile Rizal Governor Casimiro "Jun" Ynares, III, through the Provincial Health Office (PHO), urged local communities to continue the cleanliness drive so as not to allow dengue-causing mosquitoes breed in the province.
Dr. Iluminado Victoria, chief of the PHO said the province' health care providers are also disseminating and practicing the Department of Health's 'D.E.N.G.U.E' strategy, which is the acronym for D-daily monitoring of patients, E-encourage oral intake of fluids, N-note any dengue warning signs like bleeding, G-give paracetamol, not aspirin, U-use mosquito nets, and E-early consultation.
