{"id":237640,"date":"2019-11-17T07:53:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T12:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=237640"},"modified":"2019-11-17T08:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T13:24:01","slug":"dengue-cases-up-10-in-pangasinan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/17\/dengue-cases-up-10-in-pangasinan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dengue cases up 10% in Pangasinan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_157029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157029\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mosquitoe-1548948_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157029\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mosquitoe-1548948_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mosquitoe-1548948_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mosquitoe-1548948_960_720-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The highest number of dengue cases this year was recorded in August with 2,052. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>LINGAYEN, Pangasinan<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Provincial Health Office (PHO) here has recorded 8,497 dengue cases from Jan. 1 to Nov. 11 this year, which is 10 percent higher than the 7,709 cases recorded on the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The highest number of dengue cases this year was recorded in August with 2,052.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, mortality decreased from 25 last year to 11 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the victims are between five to 14 years old. A 10-month-old male was the youngest victim and a 90-year-old female, the oldest.<\/p>\n<p>Under PHO\u2019s watch list with the most the number of dengue cases are San Carlos City with 725; Bayambang, 534; Malasiqui, 480; Lingayen, 445; Bugallon, 323; Rosales, 276; Bani, 254; San Quintin, 244; Sta. Barbara, 219; and Bolinao, 166.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial health officer, Dr. Anna Ma. Teresa de Guzman, in a recent interview, said the provincial government through the PHO is exerting all efforts to combat dengue in the province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDengue is closely monitored in the province all year round through the intervention efforts of PHO in coordination with all 14 government-run hospitals and local government units,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>De Guzman said hospitals under the provincial government have fast lanes with readily available blood bags to accommodate dengue patients.<\/p>\n<p>Patients in the emergency rooms manifesting dengue symptoms immediately undergo rapid test, she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mobile health caravan dubbed, \u2018Kalusugan Karaban\u2019 also banners the campaign against dengue of the provincial government. The provincial government also established a provincial blood network, which goes around the province weekly to conduct bloodletting activities in towns and cities of the province for blood supplies,\u201d de Guzman said.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LINGAYEN, Pangasinan\u00a0&#8212; The Provincial Health Office (PHO) here has recorded 8,497 dengue cases from Jan. 1 to Nov. 11 this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":157029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-hilda-austria","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237641,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237640\/revisions\/237641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}