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 ==[[Ilocos Norte News]]==
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-'''Usec Quezon sits down with Ilocos Norte media'''
+'''Rabies control to address dog bite incidents in Ilocos Norte'''
-*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R01&article=331336119565
+*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R01&article=331336364768
 *By: Ma. Cristina C. Arzadon
-*''Sunday, May 06, 2012''
+*''Monday, May 07, 2012''
-LAOAG CITY- Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) Undersecretary Manuel Quezon III arrived in the province yesterday and sat down with the Ilocos Norte media for an hour of discussion dwelling on various areas.
+LAOAG CITY- The rising incidents of dog bites in Ilocos Norte could now be better addressed under a three-year program to eliminate rabies in the province.
-The topicss ranged from President Aquino’s economic agenda, the existence of supposed opposing blocs among Cabinet members, his relationship with the media, and more.
+The Communities Against Rabies Exposure (CARE) program is covered by a memorandum of agreement that was signed between Governor Imee Marcos and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC), an international organization, during the First Provincial Rabies Summit held recently.
-Quezon said his office has been touring around the country engaging the public and the media to amplify the President’s programs and the national government’s work agenda.
+The project seeks to support the provincial rabies control program by strengthening the following initiatives: prevention of dog bites and human rabies; elimination of rabies in dogs; establishment of surveillance and diagnostic systems; and community advocacy and education on rabies prevention into elementary schools.
-“I am here to answer any questions that you might have about how the President works, his leadership style, and how he has been stirring the country since he assumed the presidency,” he said.
+Marcos said rabies elimination is necessary if Ilocos Norte wants to maintain a visitor-friendly, healthy community, and environmentally-safe province.
-He said he chose to engage the media to a discussion as a feedback mechanism on whether or not government programs have made an impact on the public.
+Dr. Loida Valenzuela, provincial veterinary officer, said Ilocos Norte was found to be in the fifth position among provinces that recorded dog bite incidents.
-Quezon said the President has been working on obtaining the public’s trust in the government by doing his assignment before facing the media for any information that they might want to ask.
+She said the figures are being finalized but she noted that incidents rose by 11 percent in April this year compared to the same period last year.
-“He doesn’t just read the news caps (news bullets) that we provide for him. He reads all papers making sure that he absorbs all the necessary data presented. He is good with data and numbers,” he said.
+Valenzuela said her office has already conducted massive dog vaccination and education among community leaders to bring down and eventually aim for a zero-rabies province.
-He said the President’s instructions to his communications team is to answer straightforward or beg off from answering if they are not prepared to support their answers.
+The provincial government also strengthened its Provincial Rabies Control Council through an executive order that would govern rabies control and elimination program.
-“He told us not to pretend to know the answer if we don’t,” he added.
+The council is headed by Marcos, assisted by chairpersons of the provincial board’s committees on health, agriculture and laws. Members are provincial department heads, presidents of the Mayors’ League, Federation of Liga ng mga Barangay, municipal health officers, municipal agriculture officers, federated barangay health workers, senior citizens, non-government groups and the Philippine Information Agency.
-He said the Planning Office is currently working on codifying the laws, issuances, and executive orders that each President of the Philippines had decreed during their terms.
-“The President wants a complete inventory of all the documents of all the presidents who had served. This is one way of ensuring good governance,” Quezon said.
-Quezon also made clear how the Presidential Communications Group, composed of the Presidential Spokesman, the Presidential Communications and Operations Office (PCOO), and the PCDSPO, work separately on their mandates of delivering the President’s message to the public.
 ==Ilocos Norte Zip Codes==