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HEALTH EXPERTS ASK DENGUE PATIENTS:
‘Don’t rely on herbs’
‘Don’t rely on herbs’
By Armand M. Galang
Sep 10, 2010
PALAYAN CITY – Local health authorities here have asked dengue patients not to rely on herbs, amid 406 dengue cases, two deaths, have been recorded in the province since January of this year.
“We do not recommend herbal medicines as there was no proven scientific data to back this up,” said Dr. Josefina Garcia, medical specialist IV and officer in charge of the public health programs of Nueva Ecija’s Integrated Provincial Health Office.
She was referring to the use of tawa-tawa, a locally available shrub that has tiny leaves and flowers reportedly being given to some dengue patients by herbal doctors.
“If we cannot avoid being infected by dengue, deaths due to dengue are preventable,” she stressed.
She said that the Paulino J. Garcia Memorial research and Medical Center (PJGMRMC) in Cabanatuan City, being the retained hospital of the Department of Health Region 3, is equipped to treat dengue cases. “We have fastlane, medical technologists and everything there,” Garcia said, admitting that she has yet to see tawa-tawa.
IPHO records showed the fatalities were both age 11, a girl from Science City of Munoz and a boy from Palayan City.
Topping dengue cases in the province include Cabanatuan City with 95 cases; followed by Jaen, 46; San Antonio, 40; Bongabon, 25; and San Isidro, 21.
Garcia said Gov. Aurelio Umali has ordered the purchased of larvicide used to destroy habitats of dengue-carrying mosquitoes aedes egypti.
“They have also installed treated curtain to at least 4 public elementary schools and a national high school to in Bonagbon, Rizal, Guimba, Talavera and Cabanatuan City to curve dengue infection under the dengue- free initiative program of the Department of Health and the Department of Education,” she said.
“We do not recommend herbal medicines as there was no proven scientific data to back this up,” said Dr. Josefina Garcia, medical specialist IV and officer in charge of the public health programs of Nueva Ecija’s Integrated Provincial Health Office.
She was referring to the use of tawa-tawa, a locally available shrub that has tiny leaves and flowers reportedly being given to some dengue patients by herbal doctors.
“If we cannot avoid being infected by dengue, deaths due to dengue are preventable,” she stressed.
She said that the Paulino J. Garcia Memorial research and Medical Center (PJGMRMC) in Cabanatuan City, being the retained hospital of the Department of Health Region 3, is equipped to treat dengue cases. “We have fastlane, medical technologists and everything there,” Garcia said, admitting that she has yet to see tawa-tawa.
IPHO records showed the fatalities were both age 11, a girl from Science City of Munoz and a boy from Palayan City.
Topping dengue cases in the province include Cabanatuan City with 95 cases; followed by Jaen, 46; San Antonio, 40; Bongabon, 25; and San Isidro, 21.
Garcia said Gov. Aurelio Umali has ordered the purchased of larvicide used to destroy habitats of dengue-carrying mosquitoes aedes egypti.
“They have also installed treated curtain to at least 4 public elementary schools and a national high school to in Bonagbon, Rizal, Guimba, Talavera and Cabanatuan City to curve dengue infection under the dengue- free initiative program of the Department of Health and the Department of Education,” she said.
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