The Local Government Units should be mobilized to stop the measles outbreak, a lawmaker said on Tuesday.

Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian of Valenzuela City, a stalwart of Nationalist Peoples’ Coalition, made the call amid the Department of Health’s (DOH) announcement that there is a measles outbreak in Metro Manila, Southern Luzon and Western Visayas region.

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