PAGADIAN CITY, Oct. 13 (PIA) –- The Department of Health-Center for Health and Development (DOH-CHD9) and the Department of Education (DepED) will launch a new program dubbed “School-Based Dengue Free Zone Initiative Program” to fight dengue-carrying mosquitoes in schools come October 18 at 9:00 a.m. at the Teachers’ Center, San Jose District this city.
The program will feature the use of Olyset screens which have already been utilized as nets by other countries to ward off malaria-carrying insects.
A synthetic chemical called permithrin is embedded on the screen similar to the natural permithrin that can be taken from specie of chrysanthemum. The said chemical on the screen may last up to 5 years.
City Schools Division Superintendent Victorina G. Perez said 152 rolls of Oyset screens which were delivered and handed over recently by the DOH personnel will be distributed to selected schools in the division of Pagadian City. The school windows and doors will be covered entirely with the said screens.
Perez said the recipient schools are as follows: Bagong Silang Elem. School, Balangasan Central Elem. School, Ballesteros Elem. School, Pagadian City Pilot School, San Jose Elem. School, Toma Sagun Elem. School, Kagawasan Elem. School, Dumagoc Elem. School, Sta.Lucia Elem. School, Tubruan Cental Elem. School, Tiguma Elem. School, and Tawagan Elem. School.
Perez said DOH-CHD regional director Dr. Aristedes C. Tan will come to grace the event and will personally turn-over the said screens to the city division.
Expected to attend the event are DOH-CDH9 Chief Local Support Division Dr. Joshua Brillantes, Regional Dengue Program coordinator Solomon Perez, City Health Officer Dr. Noel Ceniza, barangay chairmen, and Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) official representatives. (DepEd/FPG/GCC/PIA9-Pagadian)