Info drive to prevent cholera intensified

ALAMADA: Health workers here intensified the education and information dissemination campaign in far-flung communities to prevent a repeat of cholera outbreak that killed nine and downed more than 600 villagers.Municipal health chief Dr. Rosario Bandala said health workers, nurses and midwives were sent to villages and sub-villages to teach people on how cholera bacteria is acquired, treated and prevented.

Bandala said that another villager from Barangay Upper Dado died due to cholera. She said all the nine fatalities did not reach the community hospital.