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==BJMP joins dengue blood drive== | |||
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/332576/bjmp-joins-dengue-blood-drive | |||
*By: CZARINA NICOLE O. ONG | |||
*''August 30, 2011'' | |||
The officers and personnel of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) have decided to do their part in helping people who have been victimized by the deadly dengue fever by donating their own blood. | |||
BJMP Chief Director Rosendo M. Dial announced in a meeting that the jail bureau is ready to extend help to regions and provinces with high dengue cases through blood donation. | |||
“The BJMP offers its blood to dengue patients especially in provinces under a state of calamity,” said Dial. | |||
He said BJMP regional and field units in dengue-stricken provinces will be ordered to mount blood donation projects for victims within their respective areas. | |||
Among the provinces recently put under a state of calamity due to dengue outbreaks are Iloilo City, La Union, Ilocos Sur, and '''Batanes'''. | |||
The blood donation is in line with the directive earlier given by Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse M. Robredo for local government units to enforce environmental sanitation such as dredging of clogged canals, esteros and other waterways; pruning of thick bushes or tree branches; removing or draining receptacles containing stagnant water; and conducting massive information drive on environmental control of mosquito-breeding sites especially in endemic areas. | |||
Six government agencies earlier joined hands last week to look for strategic and coordinated actions against the mosquito-borne viral disease which has killed at least 267 persons nationwide in the last seven months. | |||
This developed after Robredo, Department of Health (DoH) Secretary Enrique Ona, Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Armin Luistro, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje, | |||
Department of Science and Technology (DoST) Secretary Mario Montejo, and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino signed the Memorandum of Agreement for an Inter-Agency Cooperation Strategy for Intensifying Anti-Dengue Drive in Barangay Bagbag, Novaliches, Quezon City. | |||
Robredo said there is a need for inter-agency and inter-sectoral partnerships to implement a sustainable and wide-reaching campaign to prevent and control dengue. | |||
“All concerned departments of the government are here today to take a stand and undertake strategies and concrete actions to address the prevalence of dengue,” he said. | |||
==‘Mina’ weakens as it moves away from Philippines== | ==‘Mina’ weakens as it moves away from Philippines== | ||
*Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/49695/%E2%80%98mina%E2%80%99-weakens-as-it-moves-away-from-philippines | *Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/49695/%E2%80%98mina%E2%80%99-weakens-as-it-moves-away-from-philippines | ||