Some 45,000 public school teachers in Central Visayas, including Negros Oriental, will join the massive anti-dengue larvicide campaign in the region on January 30, initiated by the Rotary International District 3860.

District governor Edgar Chiongbian and president Jack Torrejos of the Rotary Club of Cebu Midtown have turned over to the Department of Education the anti-dengue larvicide temephos, a government press release said.

Torrejos said DepEd 7 Director Carmelita Dulangon and seven school division superintendents also received 40,000 hygiene kits for distribution to 40,000 public school teachers who will join in the anti-dengue campaign.

Torrejos said they are giving sanitary kits to the teachers as a reward for participating in the anti-dengue campaign to make their pupils and students safe, but their budget is good for 40,000 kits only,” Torrejos said.

Some P8 million worth of anti-dengue larvicide was prepared for the anti-dengue campaign on Thursday, the press release said.

Dr. Wyben Briones, past president of the Rotary Club of Metro Cebu and RI District 3860 anti-dengue chair, started the campaign in 2010, after he discovered that 102 people, mostly children, died of dengue that year.

Department of Health Secretary Enrique Ona had earlier said the larvicide anti-dengue campaign is very effective and he is happy that a civic group is leading the campaign every year, the press release added.*

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