16/09/2025
Sept 16, 2025
SCHISTOSOMIASIS PREVENTION AND CONTROL
Today, team from the TMHC, Province and BLGU, work hand on hand to continue combating a hidden disease. Selected logistics has been doled out to our endemic barangays.
Schistosomiasis, a silent destroyer lurking in rivers and rice fields, demands nothing less than a battle plan for survival. Control strategies strike on multiple fronts: mass drug administration with praziquantel sweeps through communities like a cleansing tide, breaking the parasite’s grip on human lives. Simultaneously, environmental interventions target the snail hosts, draining their breeding grounds and cutting off the enemy’s supply line. Health education rallies the people, arming them with knowledge to avoid contaminated waters and to fight for safe sanitation. Together, these strategies weave a dramatic defense—medicine, environment, and awareness—standing as a fortress against a disease that has haunted generations.