Pangasinan Travel & Living » Health http://pangasinantravel.com Travel to Pangasinan Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:33:06 +0000 en hourly 1 Anti-AH1N1 Body in Dagupan Advises Cleanliness http://pangasinantravel.com/health/anti-ah1n1-body-in-dagupan-advises-cleanliness/ http://pangasinantravel.com/health/anti-ah1n1-body-in-dagupan-advises-cleanliness/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:54:58 +0000 Pangasinan http://pangasinantravel.com/?p=53 Dr. Vivencio Villaflor, co-chairman of the Multi-Agency Task Force in the fight against Influenza A (H1N1) in Dagupan, Pangasinan, that simple practices like washing of hands are important in avoiding infection by viral diseases.

Dr. Leonard Carbonell, Dagupan City health officer, and Dr. Jackson Soriano, provincial health officer of Pangasinan seconded that Filipinos should wash their hands thoroughly with soap.

Dr. Jennifer Ann Mendoza Wi, a member of the Department of Health, technical group on A(H1N1) said that coughing and sneezing under one’s own shirt and not on any outside part of the shirt can prevent the droplet spread. The flu is not airborne but droplet spread. Droplet spread – transmission of an infection through the projection of oral and nasal secretions by coughing, sneezing, or talking.

The suspected case in a hospital in Dagupan City has tested negative of A(H1N1) virus.

]]> http://pangasinantravel.com/health/anti-ah1n1-body-in-dagupan-advises-cleanliness/feed/ 0 Pork in Mangaldan is Safe to Eat http://pangasinantravel.com/health/pork-in-mangaldan-is-safe-to-eat/ http://pangasinantravel.com/health/pork-in-mangaldan-is-safe-to-eat/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 13:26:32 +0000 Pangasinan http://pangasinantravel.com/?p=26 Mangaldan mayor Herminio Romero said that pork in Mangaldan is safe to eat. He explained that the sick pig in the video interview of barangay chairman did not come from Mangaldan Pangasinan. It was slaughtered outside the town. This was not explained in the TV interview which caused the scare thus the drop in in sales of pork in Mangaldan.

After the boodle fight the people are enlightened that the hogs and pork being sold in the said town are safe to eat.

Only Mangaldan, Urdaneta City, and Alaminos City have Class AA slaughterhouses in Pangasinan.

Mayor Romero added that Mangaldan is very strict with the sanitation at the slaughterhouse, as well as, the health of the animals being slaughtered there.

]]> http://pangasinantravel.com/health/pork-in-mangaldan-is-safe-to-eat/feed/ 0 Dagupan Task Force on AH1N1 http://pangasinantravel.com/health/dagupan-task-force-on-ah1n1/ http://pangasinantravel.com/health/dagupan-task-force-on-ah1n1/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 15:12:53 +0000 Pangasinan http://pangasinantravel.com/?p=18 Dagupan has formed a task force against AH1N1. After the Philippines 1st case of the Swine Flu, Mayoy Alipio Fernandez Jr. issued E.O. No. 14 which created the multi-agency task force. The formation of task force enhances the allocation of manpower and resource for Dagupan to respond effectively

The A(H1N1) Task Force is headed by Dagupan City health officer, Dr. Leonard Cabonel. The said local body will form plans and measures to respond against a possible outbreak of the influenza A-H1N1

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