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| ==[[Sorsogon News]]== | | ==[[Sorsogon News]]== |
| ==Sorsogon gets $300,000 for a 3-year anti-rabies program==
| | '''Convicted mayor to be transferred to Bilibid''' |
| *Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=64160 | | *Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/provincial/17993-convicted-mayor-to-be-transferred-to-bilibid |
| *Tuesday, November 15, 2011 | | *Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| :by Irma A. Guhit | | :by Sonny Sales |
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| SORSOGON CITY, November 15 (PIA) -- The Sorsogon Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) here will be a recipient of a 3-year program on Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC), a program under the Communities Against Rabies Exposure (CARE), according to provincial veterinarian Dr. Enrique Espiritu. | | |
| Espiritu said that the program under the GARC of the American government will be funded by the UBS Optimus Foundation with $300,000 prorated on a $100,000 yearly.
| | SORSOGON City – A former mayor of Matnog, Sorsogon convicted by the Sandiganbayan of graft charges is set to be transferred from the local Bureau of Jail Management and Penology district jail to the National Bilibid Prison, in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila this month. |
| "It will facilitate the coordination of surveillance, molecular epidemiology, dog population model control, participation in health economics group and consultation for rabies prevention and control models," he said.
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| Espiritu also said that this undertaking has been an offshoot of the Bohol success story that demonstrated that rabies can be eliminated and children can be saved by empowering communities to take responsibility, develop and share adequate tools for sustainability provided by global assistance and expertise.
| | A local news group in Sorsogon, “the Media Solutions,” reported, that former Matnog Mayor Guillermo “Guaming” Gacis So, 67, is detained in a separate cell away from the hardened criminals. |
| Using the Bohol model, Espiritu said that the proposal of Sorsogon is to replicate this experience and make the province a sustainable rabies free area.
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| He said that based on studies conducted, rabies is a disease of poverty that mainly affects children living in marginalized communities. Over 99 percent of human rabies deaths today occur in Africa and Asia as a result of being bitten by an infected dog and up to 60 percent of all dog bites and rabies deaths occur in children under 15 years of age.
| | His family visits him regularly since his detention on Oct. 21. |
| Rabies, according to world statistics, is a life-threatening risk for over 1 billion people living in poverty across Asia and Africa.
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| Espiritu said that with this program, the local government will strengthen awareness to prevent exposure to this disease by eliminating or controlling the source of infection in dog populations.
| | So was convicted for ordering the suspension of Barangay Laboy chairman Ernesto Gile based on a spurious Sangguniang Bayan resolution. |
| “Massive dog vaccination is cost effective to control rabies and sustainable than interventions aimed at humans only," he said.
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| The program will also recommend the reduction of dog population to be supported by local communities and that by reducing the reproduction rate of dogs, the cost of rabies control programs will also be significantly reduced as would the incidence of public health problems associated with dogs as vectors.
| | Resolution 31–03, series of 2002 was spuriously made to show it was approved by the Sangguniang Bayan recommending the suspension of Gile who was accused of abuse of authority and malversation of public funds. |
| Espiritu also expressed that this proposal to the GARC was made possible through the recommendation of former governor Sally Ante Lee and was submitted in 2009 during her incumbency but was only approved this year. (MAL/IAG, PIA Sorsogon)
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| | Based on the Anti–Graft court resolution promulgated Aug. 24 and penned by Associate Justice Roland Jurado, So was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and fined P5,000. |
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| ==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines== | | ==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines== |