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                    [Summary] => Heady with praise from international organizations, Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit reported that the government posted a 101.7 percent immunization rate in the second round of the Balik Patak Kontra Polio conducted last Mar. 2 to 8.


"We are happy with the results. It showed that we did things better in the second round," Dayrit told Department of Health officials during a post-immunization meeting at the Grand Boulevard Hotel in Manila yesterday.


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                    [Title] => Polio, TB threaten kids anew
                    [Summary] => More than 250,000 Filipino children are at risk from serious diseases like polio and tuberculosis after a state immunization program faltered last year, a government survey shows. 


Full immunization coverage for some two million infants aged 12-23 months dropped to 61.3 percent last year compared to 65.2 percent in 2000, Carmelita Ericta, administrator of the National Statistics Office (NSO), said. 


Coverage in rural areas fell by six percentage points to 56.5 percent, while in urban areas full immunization rates dropped by 1.1 percentage points to 68 percent. 


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                    [Title] => DOH to tap GIs in anti-polio drive
                    [Summary] => American military forces may soon be undertaking "assault" operations in other far-flung areas in the country — not to fight Muslim extremist rebels but to counter polio. 


The Department of Health (DOH) announced yesterday the possibility of tapping the services of American military troops participating in the ongoing military exercises for the all-out war against polio, a re-emerging national health problem.


Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit said the US Embassy has offered the services of US military medical personnel for the government’s anti-polio campaign.
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                    [Title] => Anti-polio drive in full swing
                    [Summary] => SAN FERNANDO, La Union — Get moving. 


Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit has urged personnel of the Department of Health (DOH) to speed up the administering of oral polio vaccines (OPV) in their areas during the second leg of the "Balik Patak Kontra Polio" that started over the weekend.


It will end on Friday.


Dayrit said he issued the call to avoid problems encountered in the Feb. 2-8 first leg of the campaign during which DOH regional offices failed to meet their timetable because they were slow in their "door-to-door" campaign.


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                    [Title] => Anti-polio campaign starts
                    [Summary] => Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit has expressed confidence that the government can administer free polio vaccines to all Filipino children below five years old to avert a renewed threat of the crippling disease.


"I am 100 percent confident that the mutant polio virus will be completely wiped out as planned," Dayrit said yesterday, the first day of a nationwide "Balik Patak Kontra Polio" campaign spearheaded by the Department of Health.


The first leg runs Feb. 2-8, and a follow-up drive is slated March 2-8.


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BALIK PATAK KONTRA POLIO

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It will end on Friday.


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"I am 100 percent confident that the mutant polio virus will be completely wiped out as planned," Dayrit said yesterday, the first day of a nationwide "Balik Patak Kontra Polio" campaign spearheaded by the Department of Health.


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DOH exceeds immunization drive target

By Rainier Allan Ronda | March 19, 2002 - 12:00am

Heady with praise from international organizations, Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit reported that the government posted a 101.7 percent immunization rate in the second round of the Balik Patak Kontra Polio conducted...

Headlines

Polio, TB threaten kids anew

March 13, 2002 - 12:00am

More than 250,000 Filipino children are at risk from serious diseases like polio and tuberculosis after a state immunization program faltered last year, a government survey shows. Full immunization coverage for...

Headlines

DOH to tap GIs in anti-polio drive

By Mayen Jaymalin | March 9, 2002 - 12:00am

American military forces may soon be undertaking "assault" operations in other far-flung areas in the country — not to fight Muslim extremist rebels but to counter polio. The Department of Health...

News Commentary

Anti-polio drive in full swing

March 4, 2002 - 12:00am

SAN FERNANDO, La Union — Get moving. Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit has urged personnel of the Department of Health (DOH) to speed up the administering of oral polio vaccines (OPV) in their areas during the...

Headlines

Anti-polio campaign starts

By Rainier Allan Ronda | February 3, 2002 - 12:00am

Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit has expressed confidence that the government can administer free polio vaccines to all Filipino children below five years old to avert a renewed threat of the crippling disease. "I...

Headlines