By Fernan Angeles
BINANGONAN, Rizal – Taking cue from the magnitude of health hazards posed by the highly-infectious COVID-19, the local government embarked on a system that makes sanitation and personal hygiene a must among local folks.
In a post uploaded in the social media, the local government underscored the need to impose measures seen to help contain the spread of the deadly virus in public places located in the town’s 40 barangays.
Municipal administrator Russel Callanta Ynares said to ensure compliance on the LGU’s enhanced sanitation drive, they have installed hand-washing facilities all over the locality, which include:
• all local government offices
• government health care establishments
• Regional Trial Court
• Municipal Trial Court
• Prosecutor’s Office
• Public Attorney’s Office
• Hospitals
• police stations
• public market
• fish port
• wharf
• fitness facilities
• schools
• transport terminals
• parks
• auditorium
• MRF Compound
• Land Transportation Office
• TESDA
• Senior Citizen Center
Ynares explained that local folks are required to sanitize using the hand-washing kiosk before entering any establishment. Conspicuously missing in the list are banks and private business centers which, Ynares added, would be required to put up their own hand-washing facilities at the entrance of their establishments.
Ynares likewise cited a local women’s group, Barkadahan ng Kababaihan sa Binangonan, as the main proponent of the idea on hand-washing kiosks. Interestingly, BKB is headed by the municipal administrator’s mother, Dra. Rose Martha Callanta-Ynares.
The local council for its part has started drafting a local ordinance that would require washing of hands before entering public and private establishments.