ILOILO CITY, March 11 -- Iloilo City will deploy its newly acquired vacuum sweeper truck before the month ends as part of efforts to improve sanitation methods.

The sweeper truck worth PHP5.8 million has a nine-cubic meter capacity, two-cubic meter water tank and seven-cubic meter trash bin.

It was presented to city hall employees after the regular Monday flag-raising ceremony.

Neil Ravena, head of the General Services Office, said the truck will be deployed to areas without street sweepers, like in Barangays Loboc, Mansaya, Sambag, and Ungka, as well as in the Diversion Road.

"Those are high-speed areas and sort of risky for sweepers to sweep the streets," he said in an interview Monday.

He said the truck could siphon off all kinds ...