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Monday, April 26, 2010 5:00
A loud noise startled the warmth of La Guajira over the weekend: "There Aremasain A H1N1 and more than 50 children affected." As ever, the priest who runs the boarding of the population received a flood of calls just because their institution was designated as the center of the news.
The situation began last Thursday night and lasted until Friday, which is why Riohacha Hospital, Nuestra Senora de los Remedios, in the corridors showed pictures of children with fever and headache.
"We come from Aremasain intern, could manage to say the distressed children, while reporting that" there are more peers than sick. " The doctors initially indicated that the picture was similar to the A H1N1.
"The situation was accompanied by several authorities who helped us, as the Departmental Health Secretariat and the Deputy Rosa Pacheco," said Father Enrique V?lez G?mez Sneider, director of the Technical Institute of Indian boarding Aremasain San Antonio.
Initially, 50 were minors who were affected by "a virus that is transmitted by the wind and the contact between the children," said Velez Gomez noted that while "there are no breeding of dengue."
Ocando Rosa Pacheco, a member of La Guajira Wayuu and origin, took over the case, and that 97% of 376 thousand young people between five and 20 years of age who are educated in this center are of indigenous origin .
"We found an ally in the Departmental Secretariat of Health, which made the accompanying medical and health, allowing the situation was under control," said Pacheco Ocando.
Some of the children are still receiving medical care in isolation on the recommendation in the intern Aremasain, Manaure jurisdiction, while some others decided, along with their parents, move to their villages.
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