ILOILO CITY: The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday is bracing for massive war on worms (WOW) through reduction in the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth worms and scaling up parasitic worm control and other neglected tropical diseases in the whole Visayas.
DOH Assistant Secretary Dr. Paulyn Jean Rosell Ubial said that the Health department has already started delivery to the provinces of some 2.5 million tablets of albendazole and praziquantel mass drug administration against soil transmitted helminth and schistosomiasis for school children throughout Visayas.
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