THE Davao City Health Office denied reports that the recent deaths in Marilog and Pacquibato districts were caused by measles.

City Health Officer Roberto Alcantara said his doctors had only discovered cases of pneumonia and that the report that more than 30 people have died was false.

Dr. Alcantara said even representatives of the Indigenous Peoples Sacred Heart Parish denied they ever said more than 30 had died, as what came out in the papers.

Nevertheless, Dr. Alcantara said two teams have been dispatched anew to Marilog and Paquibato to check on the reported rise of deaths in the areas.

He said one team comes from the CHO and the other is from the regional office of the Department of Health.

Alcantara send the teams after the CHO was disturbed anew with the reports that some 33 people have actually died in the two barangays from August to September.

The report was submitted by the same NGO group to Councilor Nilo Abellera, chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod committee on health.

Acting on the report, Abellera urged the CHO to investigate the matter and send medicines to the two farflung barangays of Davao City.

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