Bacolod City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod is requesting the Bacolod City Health Office and Department of Education Bacolod City Division to intensify surveillance and to provide adequate measures to prevent the spread of exanthem in Bacolod City.
The resolution authored by Councilor Claudio Jesus Raymundo Puentevella said that on October 17, about 32 students at the Negros Occidental High School were afflicted by viral exanthem or “Makayha.”
Viral exanthem is an eruptive skin rash that is often related to a viral infection that can cause rashes, bumps, or blotches on the skin which can be contagious, the resolution said.
The Bacolod City Health Office, together with the Department of Education Division of Bacolod, is respectfully enjoined to provide adequate measures and precautions to avoid and suppress the spread of viral exanthem to the public, more particularly students in the classroom settings, the resolution said.
Proper information dissemination and adequate precautionary measures are needed in order to prevent and suppress the threat of viral exanthem, it said.
Students with skin rashes should remain at home until the rashes have completely disappeared, or if he/she has been cleared by a physician as safe to return to school, the resolution added. (Chrysee Semillano via The Visayan Daily Star)