BACOLOD CITY – The City Health Office (CHO) has confirmed two more dengue fatalities, raising the death toll in this highly-urbanized city to four this year as of July 27.
The latest victims were a six-year-old girl from Barangay Handumanan, who died on July 17 due to dengue shock syndrome, and a five-year-old boy from Barangay Vista Alegre, who succumbed to severe dengue on July 27.
The girl reportedly began experiencing symptoms on July 9 after several days of intermittent fever and was admitted to a hospital on July 14.
From January to July, 631 dengue cases and four deaths here have been recorded, a 67.8 percent increase from last year’s 376 and one death during the same period.
Barangay Mansilingan still topped the list with 64 cases, followed by Taculing, 48; Estefania and Tangub with 44 each; Alijis, 34; Vista Alegre, 33; Villamonte, 32; Mandalagan, 28, and Handumanan and Sum-ag, with 27 each, based on the CHO data.
Pediatric cases make up a significant portion of the total, with 433 affecting children and teens – 251 in the one to 10 age group, 173 in ages 11 to 19, and nine cases in infants under one-year-old.
Local health authorities reported the first two dengue fatalities in February – a 64-year-old man from Barangay Alijis and
a 42-year-old woman from Barangay Mansilingan in April.