The "IGNORANT" vs. The "EXPERTS"

Partisan politics practiced by Catanduanes Politicians showed its ugly head once again - the opposition defeating a proposal to declare "under a state of calamity" the entire province. The proposal was intended to enable the Provincial Government to better serve and respond to the recent "diarrhea" outbreak.

While the outbreak was not officially declared a "cholera" outbreak, Regional DOH officials were one and positive that it is, indeed, "cholera" after laboratory results were completed.

The failed move was sponsored by PBM Romeo Tuplano of Viga, Catanduanes, as advised by the the health team that was dispatched to Catanduanes as they confirmed yesterday that the cases of diarrhea have reached epidemic proportion and that the outbreak would affect the entire province.

However, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Catanduanes, dominated by the opposition, were unconvinced, and even largely ignored the findings and recommendations of the Department of Health-Center of Health Development (DoH-CHD) Bicol team. The "honorable" PBM's took it upon themselves to declare that "there is no compelling reason" to declare a state of calamity.

Although the DoH-CHD team headed by Regional Health Director Nestor F. Santiago Jr. were present in the special session called for by the Governor, they were largely ignored as they were never asked to expound or clarify on the implications of their report.

A case of the "ignorant" prevailing on the recommendation of the "experts"?.

I don't know what it is!