Re: Chihuahua: Cases
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Chihuahua., Chihuahua .- The Ministry of Health has confirmed the deaths of 21 people in the state of Chihuahua because of the human influenza virus (AH1N1) also states that the number of infected patients are a thousand 19, unlike the 985 patients with this virus and 12 deaths reported yesterday that the Ministry of Social Development in the state.
While the national fatality is 0.8, according to confirmed cases and deaths throughout the country, Chihuahua double that lethality with 2.06, according to figures cited by the federal agency.
Municipalities with deaths from the virus in the state are: Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua eleven deaths, with seven, in addition to Jimenez, and Cuauhtemoc Guachochi, with one case each municipality.
Statistics from the Ministry of Health, obtained through the Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (INDRE) indicate that until the 20th of November at the national level had confirmed 64 thousand 322 patients with human influenza in the country, of which over a thousand belong to the state of Chihuahua.
They also argue that they are AH1N1 the 573 deaths registered in Mexico, of which 21 occurred in Chihuahua, according to reports from the Department of Epidemiology at the national level.
With these data, the level of lethality at national level is of 0.89 according to the number of deaths and confirmed cases, while in the same comparison at the state level is easily exceeded lethality with a 2.06, ie a hundred people infected with this virus in the state, two have died.
Confirmation of infected patients and deaths is through the Indre, area belonging to the Ministry of Health, for which this medical school receives the samples submitted by all states and issues a regular report to each health authority in the entities and after it entered the national statistics.
According to these reports, the Indre and the results obtained from samples sent by the State Health Services (SES) of Chihuahua, which is necessary for these 21 deaths in the state.
On this issue, the Ministry of Social Development differs from the federal information, to ensure Chihuahua yesterday that there are only 985 cases confirmed to be that the Health Ministry reported last Friday that 19 thousand people are infected.
To date, the state agency has reported only twelve deaths in the state Human Influenza, also reporting that other ten samples from deceased persons in the state who are awaiting the official results are known to present clearly all the symptoms of this virus , which according to the federal operation, you should have been reported to state authorities.
The monitoring of human influenza victims in the state is done through medical reports of each hospital, clinic or health center where the charge of each area and report the death of the patient's medical chart. In these cases, all victims clearly presented AH1N1 virus symptoms.
The deaths were confirmed in hospitals in the five municipalities listed above, which were delivered in time the medical charts and samples from state authorities.
In Ciudad Juarez death was recorded by the virus of eleven people. Three were in the General hospital, three in the Municipal Pension hospital, two in the Guernika Hospital, one in Specialty Medical Center and three at the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), areas 35 and 6.
Regarding Chihuahua, cases reported to the SES are: four in the Central Hospital of Chihuahua, two in the Children's Hospital and one at Christus Muguerza Park Clinic.
Also presented is a case in Guachochi IMSS municipality, one in the Regional Hospital in the municipality of Jimenez and one in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, in the private clinic "General Javier Ramirez Topete.
The SES data are fully consistent with the municipalities identified in the federal information, but not the number of confirmed cases and deaths from this virus, so the state authorities in the coming hours will collate data to refine both the Human Influenza statistics in Chihuahua.