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On any given day, Dumaguete is bustling with activity. The roads are overflowing with all kinds of vehicles, mostly motorcycles. Many times, there’s nowhere to park.

This City, which was built for about 80,000 people, is estimated to host about 150,000 people during the daytime.

But data from the City Health Office suggests that Dumaguete may not have a congestion problem for long: Every year here in Dumaguete, there are more people who die than there are babies being born.

City Health Officer Dr. Ma. Sarah Talla said that from 2015 to 2018, some 10,412 people died due to different causes, while the number of live births in the four-year period reached only 8,992.

Which means that from 2015 to 2018, our population decreased by 1,420. (We’d better check this against the Comelec records).

Dr. Talla, however, cautions that the number of deaths included those from other towns and cities who were admitted in several hospitals here in Dumaguete.

In the list of deaths, it was also revealed that 504 people were killed in vehicular accidents alone in a span of four years. That’s an average of 126 deaths a year.

Going by what we see every day, it would not be difficult to assume that these were motorcyclists who must have died from head injuries. Doctors say this is getting to be increasingly common in Dumaguete hospitals.

But of course, the motorcyclists only have themselves to blame for insisting to choose not to wear helmets, and for electing leaders who even look for ways to prevent law enforcers from imposing the national helmet law.

It is no surprise that visitors always wonder what must be so special about Dumaguete that it appears to be the only city where motorcyclists are [unfortunately] exempted from wearing helmets.

We can only hope this is not part of the grand plan to decongest our streets.

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