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Collapse | is the department which has the highest number of confirmed cases of the disease (even more than Santa Cruz, although the latter still has pending confirmation), but the Viedma only accommodate 10 beds for these
Cochabamba is not ready to tackle dengue
By Gisela Alc?cer Caero - Times - 08/01/2012
Patients in the hospital collapsed Viedma, no longer has room to accommodate more people who come seeking help. - Daniel James The Times
Gisela Alc?cer Caero The year 2012 began with the death of a woman about 45 years in the emergency room at Hospital Viedma, who could not be admitted to the intensive care unit because of this center with 10 beds available to this industry were occupied. This is an example of lawlessness in which we find this disease in our region, the number of confirmed cases has become the one with the greatest number of people infected with the virus around the country.
"We are in a national emergency declared by the head of the Ministry of Health, Nila Heredia, and therefore in the hospital Viedma we provide a number of beds for patients coming from the tropics, because the epidemic is at Ivirgarzama, Entre Rios and Shinahota "said the director of the only tertiary hospital in Cochabamba, Gaston Osorio, adding that" the intensity of dengue us creates problems because the hospital infrastructure is not sufficient to serve a population that borders the 2 million ".
According to data produced by the Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) in Cochabamba were confirmed 180 cases (from week 36 of year 2011), while 131 were recorded in Santa Cruz, 55 in La Paz, 13 in Beni and one in Tarija, to the previous week. "In the first week of 2012 we have treated 23 patients and it was one death," said Osorio.
Most patients come from Villa Tunari, which recorded 37 cases, followed Ivirgarzama, with 36 cases, Entre Rios, 32, Villa 14, seven; Eterazama and Shinahota, five each. This virus has an attack rate of 25.6 percent and a fatality rate of 3.2 percent. 60 percent of patients are women and 40 per cent males.
Patients have also come from Yapacan? because Santa Cruz hospitals are overwhelmed. "All patients in the tropics are being referred to hospital Viedma and what can we do if we have no more ability to solve. People are waiting on the first floor to penetrate because they do not have beds. Patients come and warm bed are boarding the new "Osorio said, adding that" for dengue have five males and five beds for women. "
Deputy Health Minister, Martin Maturano, explained that the fumigation will start on Monday will have three phases: the first entails cleaning of these municipalities, followed by the elimination of mosquito breeding sites and ends with the application of two biolarvicides.
The official also explained that enable a laboratory to detect the virus directly in Chapare, so that patients do not have to wait for the results to be reached Santa Cruz labs. "It will enable and strengthen the laboratory of Villa Tunari, because remember that with the inclusion of specialists by the year of social service has established mandatory hospital in Villa Tunari as the second level. At least, human resources can be made between two and four samples per hour. "
Chapare
At the hospital Ivirgarzama, the Tropic of Cochabamba, for lack of space are treated as outpatients suffering from dengue and some they are placed on stretchers in the hallways and even other patients with other diseases. Per day come to the center between 15 and 20 people with symptoms of the disease, which are then subjected to a test to determine whether they have or not. Human resources are also needed in the centers of Chapare.
Viedma
Viedma Hospital is also unable to meet the large number of dengue patients coming from the Tropic of Cochabamba, for his intensive care room has only 10 beds, which also receive patients suffering from other diseases. The director of this medical center, Gaston Osorio, he urged the central government to expand the number of beds, because a week ago had to enable a makeshift bed intensive care in the emergency room.
Schedule
The head of the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health reported that the plan schedule Monday spraying is done with the entry of brigade in Palos Blancos and Caranavi in La Paz and Ivirgarzama Chimor? in Cochabamba, and in Yapacan? in Santa Cruz. These five areas are the main foci of the vector, as the majority of cases nationwide is in these three departments. The staff of the Armed Forces will be 300 and a similar amount will come from the police.
FUMIGATION
The national plan will start spraying between today or tomorrow in dengue endemic departments: La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. To do this, they will be moved 650 people, of whom 350 are health officials and 300 troops of the Armed Forces.
According to the national head of the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health, Jos? Zambrana, this process will last until 11 January and will move epidemiologists La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca and Potosi, in addition to effective health national network of departments. Health staff will act on three fronts in order to perform a task and try to surround from the three points and Ivirgarzama Yapacan? reaches, which are the sites where there has been a greater increase in vector.
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