KALIBO, Aklan - Various organizations will form a task force to campaign against global warming. Led by Aklan Medical Society (AMS) president Dr. Cynthia de la Cruz, physicians in the province are concerned with the growing cases of dengue and asthma attacks among residents in the province believed brought about by the climate change.
”It is time for us to act by informing the residents and the different stakeholders what needs to be done to minimize the effects of these diseases,” de la Cruz said.
Recently, a grade school student from a private institution died of dengue. More children in the province are afflicted by similar and other types of diseases.
Mario Balandra, president of the Philippine Science Journalists Inc.-Kalibo (PScijourn-Kalibo) said they are supporting the call of the AMS to form a task force to address the effects of the climate change. Balandra also heads the Mass Communication Department of the Northwestern Visayan College here.
“We’re planning to focus our concerns in campaigning to stop waste burning and will ask the provincial board to pass an ordinance to give more teeth to the local implementation of the Clean Air Act,” Balandra said.
Before its formal organization, members of the planned task force will include the AMS, the media, police, Aklan State University, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippine Army, youth and other civic groups and religious organizations.Among the planned activities to be held this year are tree planting, poster-making contest as information awareness campaign for global warming among the school children, provincial youth congress for climate change and drug abuse prevention among others.
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