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==[[Sarangani News]]== | ==[[Sarangani News]]== | ||
''' | '''Sarangani eyes leaked reservoir pipelines in diarrhea outbreak''' | ||
*Source: http://www. | *Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=380263 | ||
* | *October 19, 2011, 2:24 pm | ||
:by | :by (PNA) | ||
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Oct. 19 (PNA) – Health authorities in Sarangani are eyeing the leaks in the damaged pipelines of a village reservoir as possibly behind the water contamination that caused a diarrhea outbreak in a coastal community in Maasim town during the past several days. | |||
Dr. Antonio Yasaña, Sarangani health officer, said Wednesday they found numerous leaks in the pipelines of the village’s reservoir that could have triggered the contamination of the drinking water of hundreds of households in Barangay Tinoto in Maasim since last week. | |||
Yasaña and provincial sanitary engineer Ruben Pelones were dispatched to the area earlier this week by Sarangani Gov. Miguel Rene Dominguez to investigate the cause of the outbreak, which already caused the death of three children. | |||
As of Wednesday morning, the Municipal Health Office (MHO) of Maasim reported the number of residents who were affected by the outbreak so far reached 254. | |||
It said 54 of the victims were still confined at the Maasim District Hospital but were already in stable condition. | |||
In an ocular inspection, provincial and municipal health and sanitary personnel found out that the damaged pipeline that runs from Barangay Tinoto’s reservoir passes through a dried up creek that usually gets flooded following heavy rains. | |||
A portion of the creek, which showed traces of dumped household and human wastes, reportedly gets flooded with sea water during high tide, submerging the leaked pipelines. | |||
“The water pipelines coming from the water reservoir harbor damages/leaks, which theoretically might be the cause of contamination that caused the diarrhea outbreak,” an evaluation report released by the Sarangani health office said. | |||
Yasaña said they initially recommended the immediate repair and rehabilitation of the village’s reservoir’s damaged pipelines to stop the water contamination. | |||
He said they directed village officials to strictly impose proper waste disposal in the area and work for the immediate construction of communal toilets in each purok or cluster of houses. | |||
“These are immediate solutions that should be addressed to prevent a similar problem in the future,” the health official said. | |||
Dr. Jaileen Milar, Maasim MHO chief, said they are set to inspect the village’s reservoir to check the quality of the facility and its stored water. | |||
The MHO earlier submitted the water samples from the area for laboratory tests but the results were not yet available. | |||
“We continued with the treatment of the affected residents and also took some rectal swabs just to rule out cholera. But I doubt whether this was caused by cholera because the manifestations of the illness was not that much intense,” she said. | |||
In the meantime, Barangay Tinoto chair Rajik Kudarat said they continued rationing potable water to the affected households pending proper clearance of the area’s water supplies. | |||
The office of Sarangani Rep. Emmanuel Pacquiao earlier commissioned a truck to supply potable water to the affected residents from the Pacquiao-owned Pacman water treatment and refilling facility. | |||
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