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For cold, the respiratory illnesses increase of 17% in Mexico

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  • For cold, the respiratory illnesses increase of 17% in Mexico

    After affirming that in a space of one month the respiratory illnesses increased in 17 per cent due to the intense cold, Gabriel O'Shea Cuevas, secretary of Health, he made sure that in the State of Mexico the supply of medicines is guaranteed, from what already million 870 thousand initiated the application of dose of vaccines for the influenza, principally to the groups of risk like children, major adults and pregnant women.
    He mentioned that before the intense winter period, there is applied a vaccine that contains a triple antiviral dose against the influenza, that are the H1N1, the H3N2 that is the seasonal one and the type B, principally in the municipalities where the temperatures are more falls like Zinacantepec, Ocoyoacac, Toluca, Calimaya, Temoaya, Ecatzingo, Amecameca, Ixtapaluca, Tlalmanalco and Ozumba.
    In interview the official of health told that either the first 460 thousand doses of vaccines were received against the influenza from which either they applied 50 per cent to the population of risk and that in the next days the federal government will deliver the lacking one.

    It exhibited that there is a population of 970 thousand persons older than 60 years in the entity and million 200 thousand six-year-old minors, from what he thought that there will not be the lacking one, except that the groups of risk will be attended as pregnant, asthmatic, transplanted and inmodepresivos, between others.
    He added that up to the moment 50 per cent of the doses were already applied, every time ? it is a question of preventive measurements to face to the increase of the respiratory illnesses that tend to increase.
    O'Shea Cave it indicated that ? the problem of the shortage of medicines is a thing overcome in the sector of health of the State of Mexico ?, since the Secretary of Health relies on with a budget of thousand 340 million weight for the acquisition of medicines.

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