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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Saturday, July 12, 2008 |
Diarrhea cases
up in Guihulngan
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE
An upsurge in diarrhea cases was reported in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, with seven deaths reported as of June this year, Dr. Socrates Villamor of the Department of Health yesterday said.
Villamor said that admissions at the Guihulngan City District Hospital have reached an alarming proportion. Aside from barangays in Guihulngan, most cases were also from the towns of Vallehermoso, La Libertad, Jimalalud, and Tayasan, he added.
Victims brought to the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital were already in severe state of dehydration, one of them was tilling his farm when he collapsed due to loss of body fluids.
| Concerns of Officials from the US Department of Veterans Affairs met with veterans and their dependents in Negros Oriental recently to address their concerns. The outreach was in line with the department’s policy of providing information and assistance to claimants who cannot afford to travel to Manila, and for those not comfortable writing letters, city public information officer Andrey Noel Tumulak said. Two Veterans Service representatives interviewed veterans and claimants at the Women’s Center near the City Social Welfare and Development Office in Brgy. Tinago. |
| UN experts to advise MANILA – UN experts were expected in the Philippines late yesterday to advise authorities on the salvage of a capsized ferry laden with toxic chemicals to avoid an ecological disaster, officials said. They will be based on the central island of Sibuyan, near where the 24,000-ton Princess of the Stars with hundreds of people and 10 tons of endosulfan pesticide aboard sank during Typhoon Frank three weeks ago. The shipping disaster claimed nearly 800 lives. |
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