Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra
Cases of flu A in Portugal increase
It is increasing the number of persons interned with flu A. Only in the hospitals of Inhabitant of Coimbra they are already 15 infected ones, which makes exceed the barrier of the 20 at national level.
To what the Renaissance perfected, in the Hospitals of the University of Inhabitant of Coimbra 13 persons are, five in the intensive cares, six in the service of the infectious diseases and two in wards. In the Hospital of the Cov?es, another two patients interned with flu are A, in the intensive cares.
According to the assistant of the clinical direction of the nosocomial university centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra, Ars?nio Santos, the patients ? are stable ?. ? In none of them, in the last days or hours, aggravation of the clinical state, the situations is relatively controlled by them ?, it explains.
At national level, the situation is not considered that alarming, however, the General-direction of the Health came already to guarantee in Sunday a picture of prevention in the nosocomial services.
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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra
Inhabitant of Coimbra: Patient's death with flu and other diseases
A person bearer of flu and with other diseases it died, in the last hours, in the Nosocomial University Centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra (CHUC), whose clinical director will be going to meet, on Monday (25), with the General-direction of Health.
The piece of news of the death has just been spread by the SIC, marking the television station to be impossible to say that he was caused by the flu.
The meeting of the clinical director of the CHUC, Jos? Peter Figueiredo, and of other persons in charge with technicians of the DGS it is destined when a peak of flu is analysing the risk of coming to be A, due to an announced wave of coldness.
In the nosocomial unities of Inhabitant of Coimbra, there is a ten interned persons, with that pathology, their half with reserved prediction.
The Minister of the Health, Paul Macedo, urged the persons to take vaccine, especially you arrange whose ages are superior to 60 years.
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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra
Eleven cases of Flu when It was confirmed in Inhabitant of Coimbra
In Inhabitant of Coimbra there is one more confirmed case, therefore, It raised for 11 the number of patients interned with Flu.
Five are in the service of intensive medicine with reserved prediction.
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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra
DGS. Twenty Portugueses interned with flu A, but situation ' not alarming '
The number of Portugueses infected with the virus of the flu A at present interned in the national hospitals ascends to 20, but the General-direction of Health (DGS) informed today that the situation, in general terms, ? will not be alarming ?.
In declarations to the Portuguese agency, the general-director of Health explained that ? this year there is no an excess of mortality associated to the grippal activity, so the situation is very different from the one that happened in the previous time ?.
? There is a grippal activity that is brought near of his peak. It is true that there are serious cases in which the persons are interned [in the intensive cares], but the number of cases is inside what we had planned in terms of anticipation ?, it highlighted Francisco George.
At present there are 20 cases of internamentos in the unities of intensive cares of the Portuguese hospitals due to the flu A, but, in agreement with the general-director of the Health, ? it is necessary to take into account that these situations always take place ?, because ? there is no here a new fact ?.
? These cases that have more serious clinical pictures, with complications that they demanded internamento in intensive cares, are situations provoked in special for the flu of type AH1, the flu that surfaced for the first time in 2009 and what about some 'dynasty' we knew that it would be going to provoke situations of this type ?, it underlined.
Francisco George highlighted still the fact of having had in Portugal ? a great impulse ? in which it respects to the care in the transmission of informations to the Portugueses under the form of prevention of the infe??o of the flu and with the vaccination, which, for the first time, was distributed to the one who was 65 or more years old.
The Minister of the Health, Paul Macedo confirmed in Saturday at night that in the last week there was a bigger affluence to the patients' hospitals with flu A, it leaves from which it is interned in unities of intensive cares.
The Minister told, nevertheless, that the situation does not justify any alarm, in the measure in ? have been fewer cases ? of flu and in what the mortality has been ? great juvenile of which in last year ?.
Speaking alongside an initiative of the PSD, in Inhabitant of Coimbra, Paul Macedo detached what the vaccine protects against several stocks of the flu that they are in circulation, adding that the one who will want to take vaccine ? still goes at time ?.
Some centres of health, he said, they are already supplying the vaccine gratuitously to other groups of the population besides that which they are considered of risk.
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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra
Ten cases of flu A confirmed in the Portuguese hospitals
Be at least 10 confirmed cases of flu A in the Portuguese hospitals, the majority is interned in Inhabitant of Coimbra.
Four are in serious state in the intensive cares.
The authorities say that there is no preoccupation for alarm, but they advise precaution.
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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra
General direction of Health does evaluation of the situation of the cases of flu A
The administrator of the nosocomial centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra says that it is accompanying the evolution of the cases.
Tomorrow they are going to meet with the General-direction of the Health to value the situation.
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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra
Nosocomial centre of Coimbra received 10 patients infected with flu A
In the last days, the nosocomial centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra received 10 patients infected with flu A.
Eight cases were directed to the Hospitals of the University and others two to the Covões.
A nosocomial source guarantees what one treated as a peak and what the situation is already bringing back to normal.
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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra
First serious cases of Flu A registered this year in Portugal
In spite of are still no official numbers, the Antena1 knows that in the hospitals of Lisbon there submitted in the intensive cares five persons infected in the last week and in Inhabitant of Coimbra, there are eight persons in the same conditions.
The virus of the Flu ' Her ' appeared in 2009 and it is in the origin of the serious cases of the disease this Winter.
The General-director of Health, Francisco George, confirms the available data and remembers that the vaccination is still avoiding more complicated situations.
Francisco George believes that there will be a less mortality between the old ones of what in last year.
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Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra - 3 deaths
Eight patients are interned in the Intensive Cares, and one was transferred, yesterday, to the Hospital of Saint John, in Oporto, because of needing special therapeutics. According to nosocomial fountain, the patients have respiratory insufficiency and are tied to the ventilator. The patients' increase led to the opening of one unity of Intensive Cares, with nine beds, and another unity in the Infecciologia, with six beds. The CM perfected that there are patients who were induced to the coma. The subdiretora-general one of the Health, Grace Freitas, affirmed to the CM that the patients' increase with atypical pneumonia is not due to the new coronav?rus, that it is contagious and fatal. ' There are no in Portugal cases of pneumonia for coronav?rus, they are own cases of the time. '
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