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Respiratory infections, primary evil of 2011
Lourdes D?az L?pez
DIARY | 31.12.2011 | 21:00
Chihuahua - acute respiratory infections (ARI), ranked first medical consultation in 2011, public health services attended an average of 90 patients per hour in the various medical units, or nearly 2 patients per minute, and these diseases took the lives on average 12 people a week in the state, according to the Ministry of Health. According to the statistics of deaths from January to October 2011, 461 people died from respiratory infections and were treated in throughout the year to 777,386 people with this condition. intestinal infections were the second leading cause of medical consultation and for which 108 people died in the first 10 months of the year, while the third disease to suffer most from Chihuahua are urinary tract infections. Juan Carlos Toledo Sanchez, state coordinator for Epidemiological Emergencies and Disasters of the Ministry of Health, reported that respiratory diseases the age group most affected are children between one and four years of which were attended 179,187 patients, followed by adults aged 25 to 44 years 163,374 sick children and after five to nine years 102,190 reported ill in different hospitals and health units. However, taking into account the rate of population, the age group most vulnerable to acute respiratory infection is that of older adults, the third week of December 57,629 were accounted for attention in people over 60 years. The municipality which has a higher incidence in patients is Juarez, with 29,978 cases, followed by 22 000 970 Chihuahua, while Delicias is third with 4,587. In rural areas the municipality with the largest number of patients is Guachochi with 3,321 cases.