DOH: Dengue Prevention Starts Within Ourselves

The Department of Health (DOH) urges the public to strengthen their approach to counter dengue, through 4S strategy.

The 4S strategy consists of: search and destroy breeding places, seek early consultation, self-protection measures, and saying yes to fogging in times of impending outbreak.

Preventing dengue is everyone’s concern, says DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III.

He urges Filipinos to include the strategy to their daily routines, in order to achieve the highest level of prevention and control against dengue carrying mosquitoes.

Currently, Central Visayas has the third most recorded dengue cases in the country, next to Region 4A (CALABARZON) and the National Capital Region (NCR), for 2019.

A total of 8089 dengue cases (with 29 deaths) have been recorded in Central Visayas this year. Majority of the cases are from Cebu City, followed by Lapulapu City, Mandaue City, Dumaguete City and Danao City.

“Our goal to prevent dengue, starts within ourselves. This is by maintaining cleanliness in our surroundings, by emptying containers of stagnant waters to eliminate breeding places of Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes”, Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III said,

DOH has coordinated with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), to alert local government units and has continuously encouraged communities to follow the 4S strategy through information dissemination. (Jan Karla Madrio/PIA7)