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Expect more than 500 000 consultations
By: THE CENTURY OF DURANGO
Durango
Increment. SSDs are said ready to meet demand.
Closing date for this year is expected to serve more than 500 000 visits for acute respiratory infections (ARI) in the entire health sector, the Ministry of Health estimated the state.
Alejandro Campa Avitia, Health Secretary, said that five weeks of the end of the year has an average of 12 000 physician-patient interviews, epidemiological week 45, the registration number is 462 000 consultations 732, only for diseases upper respiratory tract.
The head of the Secretariat certainty as to the supply of medicines to meet patient expectations.
The drug is acquired through public tenders for the purchase volume of preventive health inputs such as antibiotics, cough suppressants, analgesics, expectorants, among others.
For its part, the Director of Health Services of Durango (SSD), Emilio Arreola Chaidez said that so far have not registered cases of hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning or burns to the low temperatures recorded in the state.
Since October the team of epidemiologists from the SSD, beginning with health actions to prevent a contingency for the winter season, which ends in mid-March, as well as monitoring the behavior of the disease.
Above all, it has emphasized the spread of self-care to prevent suffering.