Children can be seen playing on this road leading to the interior portions of Sitio Carrots in Barangay Paknaan, Mandaue City. The community sits on top of an elevated portion a few meters beside Butuanon River | CDN Digital Photo Morexette Marie B. Erram
Dr. Jaime Bernadas, DOH-7 director, said that five of the seven children had already tested negative of the poliovirus while test results for the other two had yet to arrive from DOH’s main office in Manila. “Vaccination drives are still ongoing in the cities of Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu and Cebu, and there are plans to conduct them house-to-house with the help of barangay workers. But we are eyeing to expand this region wide,” he said in Cebuano.ongoing vaccination campaigns through their own initiatives, the DOH-7 has been focusing on Mandaue City.
This was because the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine confirmed that Butuanon River in Mandaue City had been contaminated with poliovirus.
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