By Chito Chavez With the rainy season set to start middle of June as announced by the weather bureau, two Quezon City councilors had pushed for stringent measures to prevent an outbreak. Re-elected Councilor Victor Ferrer Jr. (Left) and Incoming third District Rep. and Councilor Allan Benedict Reyes (Right) Incoming third District Rep. and Councilor Allan Benedict Reyes asked city government officials to conduct routine surveillance measures in the city’s 142 barangays, public schools, and food establishments with the primary goal of detecting infectious and other rainy season diseases. With an estimated 25 typhoons hitting the country yearly, there is a great danger that rainy and water-borne ailments include dengue, hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, and diarrhea might increase in incidence. These diseases especially dengue usually reach their peak during the rainy and cold months. He asked the local health department to make an inventory of the supplies of medicine to ensure that they are readily available to the public. “Instead of the public going to the hospitals after typhoons or heavy rains, the city health department should mobilize health workers especially in the city’s depressed areas to attend to their medical needs,’’ Reyes said. Re-elected Councilor Victor Ferrer Jr. also reminded officials of the city’s 142 barangays to undertake daily cleanliness drive to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. “This is a must with the deadly dengue disease scare, disease transmitted by the daytime-biting Aedes mosquitoes from building its nests still lingering in the minds of the public,’’ Ferrer said. He asked the city government to conduct routine massive information drive to make the public aware of the action, cure, and measures to be done to avert the possible spread of these diseases.