Mayor Atty. Joel Ray Lopez has signed on June 13, 2014 Memorandum Order number 280 series of 2014 directing all municipal officials and employees, barangay officials, barangay health workers and public and private elementary and secondary school administrators to intensify clean-up drive and to observe the 4:00 o’clock habit to search, destroy and eliminate all possible breeding and resting place3s of hedes mosquito.
The memorandum is pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 1204 “Declaring the Month of June of Every Year as National Dengue Awareness Month. The cases of dengue, which is an acute disease which is fatal and can lead to death, is now quite alarming.
Mayor Lopez further enjoined to disseminate the said information and undertake appropriate activities for the control and prevention of dengue with this year’s theme: “Eskwelahan, Simbahan, Barangay, Palengke at Buong Komunidad, Sama-Sama Nating Sugpuin ang Dengue.”