Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo believes that the national government’s rabies prevention program has failed despite a sizable funding of up to P900 million a year.
“The NRPCP has missed its targets to eliminate human rabies by 2020 and to declare the Philippines rabies-free by 2022, despite ample funding of between P500 million to P900 million every year,” Rillo said in a statement Sunday, Nov. 27.
“We want the NRPCP’s failure investigated, with a view to recommending stronger corrective measures to finally eliminate human deaths from rabies in the country,” said Rillo, who filed for the purpose House Resolution No. 462. Citing Department of Health figures, the rookie congressman said a total of 322 Filipinos died of rabies from Jan. 1 to Nov. 5 this year compared to 235 over the same period in 2021. This is a surge of 37 percent.The Anti-Rabies Law of 2007 established the NRPCP to control, prevent the spread of, and eventually eradicate human and animal rabies, and to promote responsible pet ownership.
The World Health Organization also considers rabies an extremely deadly disease, saying that “once clinical symptoms appear in humans, rabies is virtually 100 percent fatal”.
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