The Department of Health wants to review the city's declaration of a state of health emergency, but admits 60% of 189 reported cases in February were positive for amoebiasis, compared to zero cases in 2022.
The Department of Health central office on Tuesday, February 28 announced it was sending a team to investigate cases of amoebiasis in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental.Mayor Renato Gustillo on Tuesday, February 28 told reporters that the San Carlos City Hospital had treated a total of 230 patients for suspected amoebiasis as of February 26.
BATTLING AMOEBIASIS. A hospital staff attends to his duties at the San Carlos City hospital, which has reported 230 suspected cases of amoebiasis in February 2023, according to Mayor Renato Gustillo. Vergeire told reporters the central office will confirm if Gustilo’s state of the health emergency EO was necessary.
Francis Grupe of the PHO told Rappler, “we are in constant coordination with the local government and the DOH, but what can be divulged publicly will be up to the city.”The mayor said in-house tests on random water samples from homes of amoebiasis patients found unidentified bacteria in six samples.The Negros Prawn diagnostic laboratory in Bacolod City is validating the initial test results.
In October 2022, six of 32 cases of amoebiasis died of severe dehydration in an outbreak among the Dumagat tribe of Barangay Upper Lumutan,The Department of Health Calabarzon office and the Integrated Provincial Health Office are investigating the cause of diarrhea cases among members of the Dumagat tribe in Quezon, which have led to at least six deaths in less than two weeks., the DOH reported acute water diarrhea as the eighth leading disease , with 56,710 cases or a rate of 52.
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