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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''22 out-of-school youths recruited to scouting movement'''
'''Four island LGUs in Region 8 due for rabies-free recognition'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281330400492
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1301330823183
*Tuesday 28th of February 2012
*Sunday 4th of March 2012
:by Erna S. Gorne
:by Marcelo M. Pedalino




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 28 (PIA) -- At least 22 out-of-school youths (OSYs) were recruited to the Neighborhood Scouting program of the Boy Scout of the Philippines (BSP) based in Southern Leyte.
 
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar. 4 (PIA) -- Three island municipalities and an island province in Eastern Visayas are leading the race to be declared places where the virus on rabies from dogs is practically non-existent.
According to Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco these 22 OSYs from Barangay Asuncion in Maasin City were also known as “bakal boys” because they steal iron and steel and sell these at the junk shops in the locality for their livelihood.
These are Limasawa island in Southern Leyte, Almagro island in Samar, Maripipi Island in Biliran, and the entire island-province of Biliran itself, said Dr. Norietta Orsua, Regional Rabies  Prevention and Control Program Manager of the Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional office.
Speaking at the organizational meeting of the City Rabies Control Committee (CRCC) in this city last week, Orsua said the declaration as rabies-free places can be expected as soon as the central office shall have finished its final validation on the results of their assessment anytime soon.
Samaco said, however, only 16 of the OSYs passed the scouting trainings and joined provincial and national jamborees. These OSYs have already stopped their former ways and instead planted vegetable at the backyard of the BSP provincial office and earned money as well.
Orsua, who discussed the details of the law on the control and elimination of rabies, or Republic Act 9482, passed in 2007, said the four LGUs have actively complied with certain criteria for a place to be declared officially as rabies-free.
Among these were a functional rabies control committee, a sustained information drive on caring of pets and to be responsible owners of these pets, and a high incidence of immunized dogs, with a minimum requirement of 70 percent compliance rate.
They were were enrolled in the Alternative Learning System of the Department of Education wherein they graduated last December 2011, he said.
For now, there is no problem on the availability of the vaccines for dogs as the Philippines was a recipient of a grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) for supplies until the year 2013, Orsua said.
She added, however, that beyond 2013 it will be the challenge of the LGUs to maintain what was started and procure by themselves the vaccines for the dogs and for people accidentally bitten by dogs.
“We are still hoping that some of these boys will get the Eagle Rank and become the first out-of-school youth in the whole Philippines to be advanced as Eagle Scouts.” Samaco added. (ESG-PIA SoLeyte)
She said RA 9482 specifically cited a penalty of P 7,000 for owners who refuse to have their dogs registered and immunized, and a separate penalty of P 10,000.00 for owners who refused to have their dogs, which had bitten someone, submit to a 14-day observation period.
Still another penalty of P 25,000.00 will be slapped for non-complying owners for the 14-day mandatory observation period if they will refuse to shoulder expenses caused by their dog that had bitten a person, Orsua stressed. (PIA8-Southern Leyte)


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