" BUTUAN CITY : The Department of Health (DoH) sounded an alarm over the significant rise in cases of dengue fever in Northern and Northeastern Mindanao, citing 10 deaths out of the 1,406 persons reportedly downed by the mosquito-borne disease.
The DoH offices in Caraga region and Region 10 were already mobilized to help community health officers stop the spread of the dreaded disease, which has taken its toll mostly on children.
The patients are currently admitted at various hospitals in the cities of Butuan, Bislig, Surigao and Cagayan de Oro.
Health authorities believed that this sudden increase of dengue cases is due to the onset of rainy season.
New Health Secretary Dr. Enrique T. Ona said last Friday that he would pay more attention to local infectious diseases, dengue in particular, after cases of this mosquito-borne disease reflected a 45.3 percent increase this year as compared with the same period last year.
It was recorded that between January 1 and June 5 this year, dengue cases have climbed to 20,161 nationwide."
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