DOH launches campaign for 'safe' Christmas
Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa leads a press briefing for the Department of Health's 'Ligtas Christmas' campaign at the East Avenue Medical Center on Dec. 21, 2024. With the Health chief were officials from the Philippine National Police, Bureau of Fire Protection and EcoWaste Coalition. Herbosa said he was 'ambivalent' about whether there would be lower incidence of firecracker cases this year.
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Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa leads a press briefing for the Department of Health's 'Ligtas Christmas' campaign at the East Avenue Medical Center on Dec. 21, 2024. With the Health chief were officials from the Philippine National Police, Bureau of Fire Protection and EcoWaste Coalition. Herbosa said he was 'ambivalent' about whether there would be lower incidence of firecracker cases this year.
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00:00and underage drinking, we make sure we have that campaign and we need the help of the police, the PNP, to help us implement the law.
00:10Nasa batas naman yan eh. Bawal magbenta sa bata kahit sa bar. Actually bawal magbenta sa bata kahit sa bar.
00:20Maybe if you make that a campaign, matakot yung mga nagbebenta sa ating mga kabataan.
00:30And the idea of this is ma-prevent natin yung mga bata palang nalulun na sa alcohol addiction because it is substance abuse.
00:40So ma-prevent natin silang malun and of course ma-prevent natin magka-injury sila.
00:50So yung hulay yung iwas paputok, very important pa rin yung iwas paputok campaign.
00:57Ando rin pa rin pero ang iwas paputok namin, ini-steer namin doon sa direction ng bawal talaga for children. Kahit legal yung paputok, bawal pa yung children.
01:09So maybe we start penalizing, katulong natin mga barangay-captain dito para magkaroon ng kampanya na maganda talaga mapigilan yung mga bata humahawag.
01:21Ano yung uso ngayon? Watusi, illegal yan pero actually bawal sila sa bata. No fireworks is legal for children.
01:31Ang case namin yung siniswalo. Mabango kasi yung watusi. So they ingest it and then that's very toxic to the liver and the nose.
01:41So very important pa rin yung cases na yon. And yan ang ating Ligkas Christmas campaign.
01:47Our Ligkas Christmas campaign is about tamang pagkain, erosisyo, disiplina sa katawan, via healthy at saka yung iwas paputok.
01:57So siguro magtatapos ako. Mapa-request ako sa mga may hawak ng karotot dyan. Pabanggitin natin yung mga tatlo.
02:06Tamang pagkain!
02:11Ehersisyo!
02:16At disiplina! Bawal ang alak, sigarilyo!
02:22Merry Christmas! Maraming salamat! Ligkas Christmas sa bagong tumutinas!
02:26Alam mo natin ambivalent ako dyan. I would wish sana konti. Pero last year was the first Christmas na open after COVID.
02:35Kaya noong COVID years, 2020, 2021, 2022, talagang walang nagpaputok. Kasi quarantine pa noon. Isolation tayo.
02:452023 was the first year. Parang di masyadong mataas. So ambivalent ako baka dumami pa rin.
02:52Pero the fact na walang nasusunog na factory, maka imported na yung mga paputok. Kasi walang nasunog na factory.
03:00Kasi every year yan may nasusunog na factory. Burn unit. May burn unit din ang East Avenue. Burns naman ang problema namin doon.
03:07So we also have to be careful about that. So sabay-sabayan during the holidays may nasunog na bahay pero Christmas lights yata.
03:17Parang may squatter area na nasunugan yan. And I think it's because of electrodocs.
03:22So that's another reminder sa mga kababayan natin. Iche-check lage po alis kayo bahay and plug mo yung mga Christmas deco nyo.
03:30Kasi kuminsan doon yung sanghinong yung mga sunog sa bahay.
03:46A total of 453,018 number of firecrackers confiscated. That is with an estimated amount of 453,230 pesos.
03:59And that's actually from the QC, Quezon City area. This is from December 16, 2024 actually to present. Just to be exact.
04:16On the side of the Bureau of Fire Protection, December 1 pa lang nag-activate na tayo ng oblant alalayo sa Putok.
04:34And our personnel in the BFP are already on duty 24-7. And so far, tama po yung sinabi ni Secretary kanina, for 2024 wala po po tayong itatala na par-incident na related sa mga pagawaan ng papupok.
04:52Now we have two. The last one was June of 2024 pero yun po ay tingdahan and no major damages there.
05:01And so far, today is already the 21st of December. We are already expecting na medyo mataas na po yung fire incident. Pero yung trend po natin is still low.
05:13So we're hoping na magtutuloy-tuloy tuloy ganito. We already recorded a total of 24 firecracker and pyrotechnic related fire incidents, 15 of which are caused by firecracker explosion and 16 are pyrotechnics.
05:31So in terms of the capability of the Bureau of Fire Protection, we are marked by 33,000 plus personnel, they are all on duty now. And we also have our emergency medical units and our recently added BFPFAS, yung first aid service teams.
05:55Ito pa yung mga naka-motorcycle na EMTs ng Bureau of Fire. So hindi na po, well you know, the terminated during the holidays is crowded with vehicles and traffic and all that. Kaya po ang BFPFAS already deployed motorcycle-ready or motorcycle-riding EMTs. So together with the Department of Health, together with MMDA.