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  • Venezuela: Nurses, without protection against influenza H1N1

    Guild denounces the death of a worker in T?chira and the spread of between 10 and 12 more in Caracas. The number of cases by the virus of influence continues to grow. 9-June 15 400 new cases were, what elevates a thousand 538 reported year-round

    The Guild of nurses is on alert. A worker died in T?chira and Caracas there are between 10 and 12 hospitalized. All cases for the same reason: infection by influenza A H1N1.

    Ram?n Ag?ero, President of the College of nurses of Caracas, told El Nacional newspaper that several hospitals in the country lack of inputs so that nurses to protect themselves from contracting the virus. In some countries, even denying them the mask and the antibacterial for cleaning, so work exposed.

    Want to offer a consolidated turnover of cases, so you are lifting a report in the interior of the country. Jos? F?lix Oletta, former Minister of health and member of scientific societies and medical Venezuelan network, also explained that less than 30% of the staff working in the area of health they vaccinated.

    In the country there are between 350,000 and 500,000 workers linked to this sector, including doctors, nurses, orderlies, ambulance drivers, et al.

    Special measures that should assume highlighted the use of protective equipment as the N ? 95 mask, gloves and glasses, cleaning floors and walls of the places where the infected patients, hospitalized twice a day; immunization day; rest before the first symptom; establishment of the epidemic control committees; and exclude nurses and pregnant doctors of the activities to the public.




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