Colombia: deaths of Colombians in C?cuta by influenza H1N1 confirmed

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The alert that Erasmo Meoz went out yesterday of the Hospital and that he was realizing of the death in C?cuta of three patients for the virus of the influenza A H1N1 it was got at first with incredulity for the authorities of health of the department, but it was confirmed then, clarifying that to attend to the mortal contagion there are sufficient reservations of medicines.






on Thursday, May 23, 2013

Sources of the hospitable center consulted by The Opinion made sure that of 16 samples that were sent last week to the National Institute of Health (INS), four threw positive of the virus H1N1.

After be consulted if the samples were corresponding to three dead persons, the sources said that they are in expectation of this assertion on the part of the INS.

? What yes is known is that in clinics deprived of the city patients' cases have been attended with sharp pneumonia which conventional treatment has not produced reactions favorable to them ?, pointed out the sources.

This wants to say, as expressed specialists cucute?os in neumonolog?a, that a virus would be facing characteristics similar to the influenza H1N1, resistant to the conventional antibiotics.

The above mentioned and added the positive cases that have appeared in Venezuela ? two in the frontier state of the T?chira, and other 123 more in Merida?, lit moreover the alarms in C?cuta and the department, considering the threat of which the sprout spreads. (To see Repicture).

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Re: Colombia: 4 deaths of Colombians in C?cuta by influenza H1N1 confirmed

Two new cases of the A H1N1 virus were confirmed in C?cuta

Two new positive cases of influenza A h1n1 were confirmed by the National Institute of health (INS), which brings to six the number of patients reported with the virus in C?cuta. Of them killed four.

The news became known in the report that health authorities yielded Friday to the Assembly in an informal session requested by members to know what management is given to the Emergency Department.

The director of the departmental Institute of health (IDS), Javier Prieto Orlando Pe?a, emphasized that patients who confirmed the presence of the virus are kept under strict specialized medical care.

A the plenary were summoned representatives of the IPS operating in Cucuta and the Department, most absent.

Francisco Bermont Corporation President, announced that you ask the Office of Internal Control of the Interior its intervention so that will determine the sanctions that apply to those who ignored call for proposals, as it was to deal with a delicate situation of public health.

Prieto penalty outlined the evolution of the virus in the Department since 2009, whose origin is attributed to the sudden changes in climate.

Drew attention to the media so that they transmit data confirmed by the competent authorities of the emergency.

I.e. that reports come the approved laboratories and the National Institute of health, so not to create panic among the population and the collapse of the health care system.

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