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Re: Growing atypical pneumonia cases in Puebla
Source: http://www.lajornadadeoriente.com.mx...bla/sal211.php
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
La Jornada de Oriente - Puebla - Health
In one and a half there have been 49 deaths by SARS in the Hospital de San Alejandro: SNTSS
Americo Faria OCAMPO
The general secretary of section 1 of the National Union of Social Security (SNTSS), Reyes Hernandez Rosas, September reported that to date 49 deaths have been recorded by SARS in the Hospital de San Alejandro del IMSS, ie there were more than one death per day. Some of them might have been caused AH1N1 virus, but health authorities have not yet confirmed.
The head of medical services of the IMSS delegation, Eduardo Morales Hern?ndez, explained that patients who have died from SARS undergo a lung biopsy by experts from the National Medical Arbitration Commission (CONAMA), so from that study was to determine whether the dead were infected with human influenza. To date, he added, do not have any results from those tests.
Gatell Hugo Lopez Ramirez, general director of epidemiology at the Federal Ministry of Health, said in an interview earlier this means that during this third rebound of the virus AH1N1 is required doctors to report suspected cases of human influenza all deaths from pneumonia, severe acute respiratory infections and influenza-like illness (ETI), as indicated during the contingency is probable that up to 80 percent of suspected cases test positive to the new strain.
When it began in April 2009-health contingency - for human influenza, the local Health Ministry has reported only five deaths from the virus AH1N1. Three occurred in hospitals of the state agency, one in the IMSS and the ISSSTE another.
The first victim was a 33-year-old native of Santa Maria Moyotzingo, Auxiliary Board of St. Martin Texmelucan. The second, a 11 year old girl originally from Tehuacan, the third, a 52-year-old from Tlatlauquitepec, Puebla, the fourth, a girl of two years of the number nine health jurisdiction, based in Tepexi Rodriguez, and the fifth, a 48 years old.
Morales Hern?ndez San Alejandro reported that currently have 50 dependents hospitalized for symptoms of human influenza, but so far none have been confirmed as positive for the new strain of influenza by the laboratory of the Hospital of La Raza, Mexico, which is the site where we analyze all samples sent by all the hospitals of the IMSS in Mexico.
The official explained that 80 percent of hospitalized patients is composed of adults and 20 percent are children.
He said although in recent days has increased the demand for health services for respiratory diseases in all units of family medicine clinics and care centers, the delegation state of Puebla has contemplated hiring more staff, since he considered that the current workforce is sufficient to meet the health contingency. Hernandez Rosas noted that although the hospital authorities of St. Alexander assigned the sixth floor of the hospital to care for patients with respiratory problems and those infected with influenza, this place has already been exceeded by demand, with only 47 beds were arranged.
Source: http://www.lajornadadeoriente.com.mx...bla/sal211.php
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
La Jornada de Oriente - Puebla - Health
In one and a half there have been 49 deaths by SARS in the Hospital de San Alejandro: SNTSS
Americo Faria OCAMPO
The general secretary of section 1 of the National Union of Social Security (SNTSS), Reyes Hernandez Rosas, September reported that to date 49 deaths have been recorded by SARS in the Hospital de San Alejandro del IMSS, ie there were more than one death per day. Some of them might have been caused AH1N1 virus, but health authorities have not yet confirmed.
The head of medical services of the IMSS delegation, Eduardo Morales Hern?ndez, explained that patients who have died from SARS undergo a lung biopsy by experts from the National Medical Arbitration Commission (CONAMA), so from that study was to determine whether the dead were infected with human influenza. To date, he added, do not have any results from those tests.
Gatell Hugo Lopez Ramirez, general director of epidemiology at the Federal Ministry of Health, said in an interview earlier this means that during this third rebound of the virus AH1N1 is required doctors to report suspected cases of human influenza all deaths from pneumonia, severe acute respiratory infections and influenza-like illness (ETI), as indicated during the contingency is probable that up to 80 percent of suspected cases test positive to the new strain.
When it began in April 2009-health contingency - for human influenza, the local Health Ministry has reported only five deaths from the virus AH1N1. Three occurred in hospitals of the state agency, one in the IMSS and the ISSSTE another.
The first victim was a 33-year-old native of Santa Maria Moyotzingo, Auxiliary Board of St. Martin Texmelucan. The second, a 11 year old girl originally from Tehuacan, the third, a 52-year-old from Tlatlauquitepec, Puebla, the fourth, a girl of two years of the number nine health jurisdiction, based in Tepexi Rodriguez, and the fifth, a 48 years old.
Morales Hern?ndez San Alejandro reported that currently have 50 dependents hospitalized for symptoms of human influenza, but so far none have been confirmed as positive for the new strain of influenza by the laboratory of the Hospital of La Raza, Mexico, which is the site where we analyze all samples sent by all the hospitals of the IMSS in Mexico.
The official explained that 80 percent of hospitalized patients is composed of adults and 20 percent are children.
He said although in recent days has increased the demand for health services for respiratory diseases in all units of family medicine clinics and care centers, the delegation state of Puebla has contemplated hiring more staff, since he considered that the current workforce is sufficient to meet the health contingency. Hernandez Rosas noted that although the hospital authorities of St. Alexander assigned the sixth floor of the hospital to care for patients with respiratory problems and those infected with influenza, this place has already been exceeded by demand, with only 47 beds were arranged.
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