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Departmental government declared emergency
TUESDAY JANUARY 31, 2012 00:00
The death of two people, and 159 infected with malaria, the reasons would be the departmental government to enact emergency and health states in La Guajira, said Juan Camilo so Chirino Kammerer, Secretary of Health of the local authority.
The official said that the department shall implement the contingency plan to be presented active before the rains and the purpose is to anticipate the outbreak to try to minimize the consequences.
It is worth mentioning that the municipality of Riohacha is most affected with 97 cases, followed by Manaure 54, Albania 3, Maicao Dibulla 1 and 2 and most of those affected is an ethnic Way?u. The strongest cases the record Marbacella communities, the Cachaca 1, 2 and 3, The Furnace, The Mocoya, Shrimp, Bell, Kainchonzu, Patamana, Musichi, Porquy, Spring, and Yawatka Capchirrapo