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| ==[[Sorsogon News]]== | | ==[[Sorsogon News]]== |
| '''No firecracker victim in Sorsogon on Christmas; celebrations peaceful''' | | '''Free flu vaccine to indigent senior citizens in Sorsogon''' |
| *Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=394681 | | *Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=70652 |
| *December 27, 2011, 7:17 pm | | *Monday, January 02, 2012 |
| :by (PNA) | | :by Irma A. Guhit |
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| SORSOGON CITY, Dec. 27 (PNA) – The police here recorded no untoward incident nor firecracker injury during the celebration of Christmas. | | SORSOGON CITY, Jan 2 (PIA) -- The provincial health office of Sorsogon has provided indigent senior citizens free flu vaccines to address the respiratory health problems brought about by old age. |
| | | "Indigent old people usually suffer respiratory diseases due to cold weather condition, poor living conditions, and poor diet, thus it is exigent that vaccine to fight flu be given to this sector," Dr. Liduvina D. Dorion said in her regular radio program Paalalang Pangkalusugan yesterday. |
| Sr. Supt. Edgardo Ardales, Sorsogon City police chief, on Tuesday said the favorable holiday situation was due to the cooperation among all sectors, including government agencies in the campaign for a peaceful and joyful Christmas celebration.
| | Dorion enjoined all workers in the barangay health centers to inform local officials, especially barangay chiefs, that free flu vaccine is available for indigent senior citizens, who, according to the Department of Health (DOH), are vulnerable to influenza and pneumonia. |
| | | With the continuous rainy season and cold weather conditions, the provincial government and the DOH have joined efforts and focused most of their health priorities on children and the elderly, two of the age group easily prone to diseases and must be given early prevention like vaccination so as to arrest any complications early. |
| The entire commercial district and centers of the celebrations in the city were effectively covered by the “uniform system” of police deployment in all areas that were potential of street crimes and other untoward incidents. The “Oplan Bantay Paputok” also worked well in regulating the use of hazardous fireworks, Ardales said.
| | “Most have somehow contributed also to their communities but because of financial constraints, most can not avail of the cost of medicines, Dorion said. |
| | | “Today, the Code White program implementation of the DOH as a mitigating health strategy and as part of the disaster risk reduction management mechanism has seen to it that health is one of the priority concern provided early intervention so that mitigation for health concerns be addressed,” Dorion concluded. (MAL/IAG-PIA Sorsogon) |
| Since the first week of December, he said that stores were already inspected to ensure that regulations related to the selling of firecrackers were religiously being observed and “we found no violator, so far”, he said.
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| Policemen in the city were also closely monitored against firing their firearms during the celebration. They were also watched against entering business establishments bearing firearms while not in uniform, Ardales said.
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| The City Health Office (CHO) had also been successful in implementing the Department of Health’s (DOH) Aksyon: Paputok, Injury Reduction (APIR) drive, the reason that use of firecrackers has been significantly reduced.
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| Also dubbed “Give Me Five,” the APIR campaign hopes reduce the number of 62 firecracker-injury cases reported in 2010, which was more than double than 2009’s 28 cases, she said.
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| The APIR campaign emphasizes five reminders that the community must remember: these fireworks cause injuries and endanger health; children should not use any fireworks; keep away from exploding fireworks; never pick used nor unspent fireworks; and for all fireworks injuries, seek immediate medical treatment.
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| “So far, this Christmas, no firecracker related injury was reported to our office since the start of the Yuletide Season and what we are anticipating now is the New Year’s Day celebration which has been traditionally met with jubilations with the use of fireworks,” according to CHO’s Health Education Promotion Officer (HEPO) Sophie Dematera.
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| To welcome the New Year, Dematera said families must remember APIR to avoid accidents brought about by firecrackers.
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| Meanwhile in Castilla town, which is among the hotbeds of insurgency, Col. Felix Castro, the commander of the 903rd Infantry Brigade (IB) of the Philippine Army (PA), said the effective community defense system mounted in most of the province’s “guerrilla zones” proved effective in curtailing insurgency-related atrocities in the municipality.
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| Castilla is a good example of this defense mechanism as all its 34 barangays are being manned by Barangay Defense System (BDS) volunteers that serve as “community watchdogs” against the presence of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, Castro said.
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| ==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines== | | ==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines== |