Ayon sa datos ng Department of Health, 200 - 300 na Pilipino ang namamatay kada taon dahil sa rabies. Isa sa mga itinuturing na dahilan sa pagtaas nito -- kakulangan sa tamang impormasyon tungkol sa mga dapat gawin sa oras na makagat ng aso. Ang tugon ng gobyerno sa problema ng rabies sa ating bansa, tinutukan ng 'Reporter's Notebook' sa video na 'to.
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00:00 In the capture of a CCTV camera in Barangay Calulot, San Fernando, Pampanga,
00:08 a dog was seen running on the street.
00:12 After a few seconds,
00:14 it suddenly attacked and bit the residents.
00:19 The dog immediately ran away and moved to another location.
00:25 In another CCTV footage, also captured in Barangay Calulot,
00:29 a young man was bitten by a dog and was about to leave his house.
00:34 Later,
00:36 a dog suddenly attacked him and bit another resident.
00:44 The young man fell down and ran away.
00:49 In San Lazaro Hospital,
00:53 we also caught a patient who was bitten by a dog.
00:57 This is where the confirmed cases of the virus are brought.
01:02 The patients are brought here 24 hours a day.
01:06 How did the government respond to the increase of rabies cases in the country?
01:21 A reporter's notebook found the young man who was captured by CCTV while being attacked by a dog in Pampanga.
01:28 He is 7-year-old Jayden Beltran.
01:32 When he came out of the gate, he saw the dog.
01:36 He didn't expect that the dog would come near him and put its foot in front of him.
01:42 My son saw the dog's bite.
01:50 In these images,
01:52 the young man was bitten by a dog in different parts of his face.
01:57 Because of Jayden's bite,
01:59 he was immediately taken to the hospital for treatment and vaccination.
02:05 Jayden also had big wounds on his face.
02:08 What I know is that rabies is fatal.
02:11 Jayden was saved from the incident.
02:15 His wounds are slowly healing.
02:19 With the help of the barangay,
02:21 Jayden is now free of the need for anti-rabies vaccine.
02:25 They should not be afraid.
02:27 We have the technology of vaccination.
02:30 Almost 100% efficacy of the vaccine.
02:34 The City Health Office of San Fernando, Pampanga said
02:38 that after a dog attacked the area,
02:41 the residents immediately killed it.
02:44 Actually, we don't know who the owner is.
02:47 According to the rape sack of 2007,
02:49 the owner of the dog that was bitten is liable for the damages that may occur during the treatment.
02:56 The owner should be held accountable.
02:57 The dog was also diagnosed with rabies.
03:01 That's why other dogs that are in contact with the dog or are attacked by Jayden should be caught.
03:08 Especially if it is unvaccinated,
03:10 it should be euthanized because it cannot be treated anymore.
03:16 But not all the time, rabies is caught by animals.
03:21 Some of them were even killed.
03:27 In this cell phone video that was taken on February 3, 2023,
03:40 we can see that John Leo, 36 years old, is breathing heavily while confined in the hospital.
03:47 His wife, Jonalyn Dagping, told us that
03:51 in October 2022, John Leo was bitten by a dog.
03:56 Because the dog bit John Leo was not injured,
04:01 his wife did not get vaccinated against rabies.
04:04 We know that if it is a dog, there is no rabies.
04:07 And it is only in our family.
04:09 My husband did not get vaccinated against rabies.
04:14 But just three months passed,
04:17 suddenly, he felt pain in his arm and it was hard for John Leo to breathe.
04:22 He was taken to the hospital,
04:26 but while being observed by doctors,
04:28 he was slowly experiencing symptoms of rabies,
04:34 such as difficulty breathing and fear of water and wind.
04:38 He could not control his movements.
04:42 He said, "What is this? What is happening?"
04:45 I said, "I don't know."
04:47 He said to the nurse, "Nurse, please save me.
04:51 We have children."
04:54 After that, he said, "You don't have a child. You can't talk to him anymore."
04:58 Because of the symptoms that his wife showed,
05:01 John Leo was taken to the isolation room of the hospital.
05:04 They found out that his wife was positive for rabies.
05:09 I could not explain it.
05:11 His eyes were different.
05:13 He was twitching.
05:15 And just a few hours later, John Leo came back to life.
05:21 John and his wife explained that they did not have enough information about rabies.
05:26 So, they decided to leave it to their husband to get vaccinated.
05:31 According to the expert, rabies can be transmitted to humans
05:36 if we are bitten, scratched, scratched, or if we are bitten by a rabies-containing animal.
05:42 It means that if a person has rabies,
05:46 the rabies infection is already in the brain.
05:51 So, there's nothing we can do.
05:53 If the virus is just spreading to other parts of the body,
05:56 primarily to the rabies, to pass to others,
05:59 death cannot be avoided.
06:01 Among the symptoms that a person with rabies can experience,
06:07 it is dizziness, difficulty breathing, and dizziness.
06:11 The most common positive for rabies is dizziness, difficulty breathing, and dizziness.
06:16 It is also the case of light blindness.
06:18 And the most common case is the fear of water and wind.
06:23 San Lazaro Hospital is the largest animal bite center in the Philippines.
06:31 It is already 5 p.m. and this is the time when the patients here in San Lazaro Hospital start to crawl.
06:39 The hospital is observing patients here at 3 a.m.
06:46 and most of the patients are children.
06:49 The highest number of rabies cases we saw in one day is 1,900.
06:54 The most alarming thing is that 99% of the patients are bitten by a dog.
07:00 A dog?
07:01 Yes, a dog.
07:02 They are the ones who are being taken care of?
07:03 Yes, that's the problem.
07:05 Because they are taking care of the dog, sometimes they are not vaccinated.
07:10 And even the patient who was bitten by their dog, they are not vaccinated.
07:15 San Lazaro Hospital is the largest animal bite center in the Philippines.
07:23 We were able to queue up with the mothers Mayvelyn and Genesis,
07:27 seven years old, to get vaccinated against rabies shot.
07:31 Their pet dog, Genesis, was bitten right in front of her eyes.
07:35 I was just taken to the hospital and I was already vaccinated.
07:39 Brother, if you were not vaccinated, we will have a hard time because the rabies is in your brain.
07:44 Okay? This is what I will do. I will poke you slowly.
07:49 Slowly. Now, mommy will hug you. Okay?
07:55 Genesis was immediately injected with rabies shots to prevent the spread of the virus to the child.
08:01 So, what are these, Doc?
08:03 Dr. Divilia also showed me the supply of vaccines in their hospital.
08:08 We are only halfway through. We have run out of supplies for the entire year.
08:14 So, we are supplementing the request for vaccines.
08:20 Dr. Divilia defended that there is no shortage of vaccine supply against rabies in their hospital.
08:26 But the problem is, there are patients who are not vaccinated and their condition is getting worse.
08:32 Usually, our wards are at the end of the line for rabies patients.
08:36 We were shown the isolation room where the patients who are vaccinated against rabies are admitted.
08:43 Usually, if it looks like this, it has a wound, it's normal.
08:47 Unfortunately, there is no better way.
08:50 In all the rooms here in San Lazaro Hospital, this is the only one that has a wound.
08:55 This is called a rabies room.
08:57 There are at least four rabies rooms here in San Lazaro Hospital.
09:01 This is where the confirmed patients who were infected with the virus are brought here.
09:04 The patients who are brought here do not last more than 24 hours.
09:08 In fact, last night, August 29, a patient died inside the room.
09:16 According to the Department of Health or DOH, it was released in March 2023,
09:21 55 cases were reported to have died from human rabies.
09:25 It is higher by 8% compared to 2022.
09:29 200 to 300 Filipinos die every year from rabies.
09:36 For the Animal Kingdom Foundation or AKF, a non-government organization,
09:42 awareness of the public is more important.
09:46 What is scary here is the lack of awareness of people.
09:51 Rabies is dangerous, it is fatal, and rabies is preventable.
09:57 I think we will have greater social participation in the rabies prevention of our government.
10:09 The problem of rabies in the country has not changed.
10:12 But, it is also based on data.
10:15 The number of cases is still increasing and there are still people dying.
10:20 Aside from the government's more strict program,
10:24 it is also important for pet owners to be responsible.
10:28 Vaccinate the pets.
10:31 Until next Saturday, I am Jun Veneracion and this is Reporters Notebook.
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