By Estanislao Albano, Jr.

TABUK CITY, Kalinga – The deaths here this week of  a third year college student and an 11-month old girl from the dreaded dengue fever should serve as a wake up call to local medical  service providers and the people of the province.   

Jeremy Aguinaldo, 18, a third year college student residing at sitio Hilltop, Bulanao, this city, expired at the Kalinga Provincial Hospital (KPH), also in Bulanao, before 6 AM of August 11 without undergoing platelet concentrate transfusion due to unavailability of supply in the province while 11-month old Nashiva Erich Ledda of Purok 5, also in Bulanao,  was only diagnosed as a dengue case two days after admission because that was only the time the medical technologist reported to work.