Tweet
Legislative Commission to investigate reality of dengue and H1N1 avian retroviral
NationalFebruary 20, 2010
To Comment
TEGUCIGALPA .- The chairman of the legislature, Juan Orlando Hern?ndez, three deputies joined the Commission Regular Health National Congress, to join at the earliest to investigate what is happening with the resurgence of dengue and H1N1 flu.
Members of the Health Commission Regular Congress must submit a full report to Members on the national situation regarding the incidence of dengue, influenza H1N1 and the number of HIV retroviral.
The committee chairman is Deputy nationalist Mauricio Oliva (Choluteca) and the other members are Congressmen Mario Ernesto Rivera Vasquez (Pinu) and Pearl Simons (Liberal Party), the latter two representatives of Francisco Moraz?n.
Hernandez and the first role assigned to the commission to know as soon as possible the situation regarding the resurgence of cases of hemorrhagic dengue fever and influenza AH1N1, specifically in the northern departments of the country.
For its part, the committee chairman announced that he will meet with Health Minister Arturo Bendana, to provide them with a report regarding the inventories of antiretroviral for patients living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes the disease AIDS.
REPORT TO PLENARY
This investigation due to a complaint about a possible rise in figures on the number of infected in the country.
He announced that once they know the reality of the national health system, shall provide all information to the legislature to consider the report when adopting the General Budget of Revenues and Expenditures of the Republic 2010.
Oliva noted that Honduras had reported 120 infected since June last year, only AH1N1 flu cases, but it is believed that the incidence may be higher, because not all Hondurans who have the disease, gain access to the centers medical care.
"Our priority is to learn about the situation of the Health Department and work closely with the minister Bendana," the congressman.