STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS - Bacolod City

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8. Youth and sports
9. Disaster preparedness
10. Peace and order
11. Traffic
12. Streetlighting
13. Slaughterhouse
14. City Hall services and employees
HEALTH SERVICES
During the year ending June 30, 2008, P 71 million were spent to bring
health services to our people.
In summary, our City Health Office was able to provide services to a total
of 276,564 beneficiaries coming from:
- 16,324 mothers and mothers-to-be
- 94,446 children
- 10,349 dental cases
- 40,035 people needing various laboratory services
- 6,247 people needing disease control and surveillance
- 100,189 people who benefited from environmental health and
sanitation programs
- 1,660 people needing mental health services
- 1,112 people needing pre-marital counseling services
- 2,942 women needing family planning services
- 3,260 people needing “Operation Tuli” services
The City Health Office also conducted blood-letting activities in different
barangays and organizations and elicited 724 blood donors.
Philhealth cards were also given to 1,706 indigent beneficiaries.
In the fight against dengue, P1.9 million worth of larvacides was
purchased and introduced into stagnant water pools and probable breeding
grounds of mosquitoes, and a total of 11,255 houses, establishments and
premises were fumigated as a joint effort between the City Health Office and the
Dengue Task Force that was created in 2007. Neighborhoods where dengue
cases were reported were immediately surveyed for epidemiological and
entomological purposes. An information campaign in different schools and
barangays was also conducted to help people combat the incidence of dengue
cases.