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Zika: Hospitals of Peru on yellow alert for the virus
Monday June 13, 2016 | 7:45
They seek to improve the responsiveness of health centers to advance disease.
Zika: 83 have already been reported cases of this evil in the country.
Faced with the threat of transmission of the dreaded virus zika , the Ministry of Health (MoH) has declared yellow alert in all hospitals of Lima. So far this year, there have been 83 cases of that disease throughout the country. Of these, 72 are native.
The yellow alert is set when there is a high probability of occurrence of an adverse event or destructive. This warns of a possible increase in health care because of the extent of a threat or the evolution of it. All this is established through monitoring of the competent authorities.
Therefore, the MoH has ordered the activation of the Emergency Operations Center Health Sector ( COE -Health), in which representatives of Essalud and the Institute of Health Services Management ( IGSS ), as well as representatives of the healing of the National Police and the Armed Forces.
CAPACITY OF RESPONSE
This situation has been caused by the spread of the mosquito that transmits the disease ( Aedes aegypti ) and the high migration of people from neighboring countries, especially Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, where they have presented the more cases of zika in South America.
The yellow alert allow adjust the responsiveness of public health facilities in Lima to face this evil, especially in emergency areas, as established by the Ministerial Resolution No. 410-2016 / MINSA, published in the official newspaper El Peruano.
HAVE IN MIND
The Aedes aegypti not only transmits the zika. It is also considered vector of dengue, present in warm areas of the country.
In addition to Lima, they have been declared yellow alert health centers Tumbes, Loreto, Ucayali, San Martin and Cajamarca.
Zika: Hospitals of Peru on yellow alert for the virus
Monday June 13, 2016 | 7:45
They seek to improve the responsiveness of health centers to advance disease.
Zika: 83 have already been reported cases of this evil in the country.
Faced with the threat of transmission of the dreaded virus zika , the Ministry of Health (MoH) has declared yellow alert in all hospitals of Lima. So far this year, there have been 83 cases of that disease throughout the country. Of these, 72 are native.
The yellow alert is set when there is a high probability of occurrence of an adverse event or destructive. This warns of a possible increase in health care because of the extent of a threat or the evolution of it. All this is established through monitoring of the competent authorities.
Therefore, the MoH has ordered the activation of the Emergency Operations Center Health Sector ( COE -Health), in which representatives of Essalud and the Institute of Health Services Management ( IGSS ), as well as representatives of the healing of the National Police and the Armed Forces.
CAPACITY OF RESPONSE
This situation has been caused by the spread of the mosquito that transmits the disease ( Aedes aegypti ) and the high migration of people from neighboring countries, especially Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, where they have presented the more cases of zika in South America.
The yellow alert allow adjust the responsiveness of public health facilities in Lima to face this evil, especially in emergency areas, as established by the Ministerial Resolution No. 410-2016 / MINSA, published in the official newspaper El Peruano.
HAVE IN MIND
The Aedes aegypti not only transmits the zika. It is also considered vector of dengue, present in warm areas of the country.
In addition to Lima, they have been declared yellow alert health centers Tumbes, Loreto, Ucayali, San Martin and Cajamarca.
