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http://www.larepublica.pe/12-09-2011/cerca-de-30-mil-peruanos-sufren-de-tuberculosis
Spanish to English translation
About 30 thousand Peruvians suffer from Tuberculosis
Mon, 12/09/2011 - 07:57
The high incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in our capital is a delicate problem facing our country , and so far over 30 000 Peruvians are victims of this terrible wrong and 60% of those infected are in the city of Lima. The morbidity rate in the capital is alarming and we only internationally than Haiti.
Eduardo Salinas
So yesterday in the countryside of the association of United Markets in El Agustino, the mayor of Lima, Susana Villar, and the Ministers of Health, Alberto Tejada; of Education, Patricia Salas Working Rudecindo Vega Housing, Ren? Cornejo ; of Transportation, Carlos Paredes, Production, Kurt Burnet, and Women, Aida Garcia Naranjo, signed the Pact Intersectoral "Breathe life. Together against TB, " by which they agree to join forces to work to eradicate this evil.
Also present was the president Ollanta Humala, accompanied by First Lady Nadine Heredia. "The TB is treatable, it is an incurable disease. You have to follow the course of tablets, but the best treatment is the pot, the food. So we have to promote nutritious food than junk food. What you eat is better eaten at home, "stressed the president Humala. raises a fund in this regard, it proposed the creation of a fund to combat this evil, beginning in the hills of the capital, where they live, according to statistics, the largest number of patients for TB in Lima.
For its part, the mayor of Lima, Susana Villaran said that should stop the advance of evil in the city: "We need to curb the disease that has put us in first place in Latin America. It is sad to say that Peru, which has grown economically, with the largest number of people infected with tuberculosis. "
According to Luis Z??iga Quiroz, deputy director of the Health-East Lima IV, tuberculosis is the first public health problem caused by infection, associated with a profound social base of poverty and inequality, "Health sector efforts to control not have reduced the magnitude of people affected, so it is necessary to establish a new approach that overcomes the current biomedical paradigm. " more committed Districts
The specialist advises others to fight social problems to curb the spread of TB by reducing crime, drug addiction and poverty. According to statistics by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in 30 districts the rate of morbidity than 100 cases per 100 000 inhabitants, what The Augustine, Victoria, Santa Anita, Ate, San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima Cercado , Rimac, Lince, San Juan Comas and Miraflores are the 10 districts with the highest prevalence of TB in the capital.
Peru, Haiti and Bolivia are the countries with the highest incidence of TB in America, and at the other end, Uruguay, Chile and Cuba are in the process of eradicating TB as a public health problem. The rate of incidence of the disease reported in Lima and Callao and other parts of the country exceeds the incidence in neighboring countries like Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Chile.
The metropolitan area of Lima and Callao is the city with the highest incidence rate of new cases of TB among the major cities of the continent, ahead of cities like Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Bogot?, Santiago of Chille and Mexico City. How to prevent TB
Tuberculosis is a disease that spreads easily through the air and can attack any organ of the body, but mainly the lungs. TB treatment is free.
TB is spread through saliva droplets that travel through the air when someone with TB coughs, sneezes, spits, talks, sings, and so on.
Symptoms of TB include coughing with phlegm for more than 15 days, night sweats, fever, fatigue, weight loss, lack of appetite.
To avoid spread of TB is recommended to ventilate and illuminate the rooms of the house to remove the virus, eating a healthy and balanced, as well as prevent drug use.
Spanish to English translation
About 30 thousand Peruvians suffer from Tuberculosis
Mon, 12/09/2011 - 07:57
The high incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in our capital is a delicate problem facing our country , and so far over 30 000 Peruvians are victims of this terrible wrong and 60% of those infected are in the city of Lima. The morbidity rate in the capital is alarming and we only internationally than Haiti.
Eduardo Salinas
So yesterday in the countryside of the association of United Markets in El Agustino, the mayor of Lima, Susana Villar, and the Ministers of Health, Alberto Tejada; of Education, Patricia Salas Working Rudecindo Vega Housing, Ren? Cornejo ; of Transportation, Carlos Paredes, Production, Kurt Burnet, and Women, Aida Garcia Naranjo, signed the Pact Intersectoral "Breathe life. Together against TB, " by which they agree to join forces to work to eradicate this evil.
Also present was the president Ollanta Humala, accompanied by First Lady Nadine Heredia. "The TB is treatable, it is an incurable disease. You have to follow the course of tablets, but the best treatment is the pot, the food. So we have to promote nutritious food than junk food. What you eat is better eaten at home, "stressed the president Humala. raises a fund in this regard, it proposed the creation of a fund to combat this evil, beginning in the hills of the capital, where they live, according to statistics, the largest number of patients for TB in Lima.
For its part, the mayor of Lima, Susana Villaran said that should stop the advance of evil in the city: "We need to curb the disease that has put us in first place in Latin America. It is sad to say that Peru, which has grown economically, with the largest number of people infected with tuberculosis. "
According to Luis Z??iga Quiroz, deputy director of the Health-East Lima IV, tuberculosis is the first public health problem caused by infection, associated with a profound social base of poverty and inequality, "Health sector efforts to control not have reduced the magnitude of people affected, so it is necessary to establish a new approach that overcomes the current biomedical paradigm. " more committed Districts
The specialist advises others to fight social problems to curb the spread of TB by reducing crime, drug addiction and poverty. According to statistics by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in 30 districts the rate of morbidity than 100 cases per 100 000 inhabitants, what The Augustine, Victoria, Santa Anita, Ate, San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima Cercado , Rimac, Lince, San Juan Comas and Miraflores are the 10 districts with the highest prevalence of TB in the capital.
Peru, Haiti and Bolivia are the countries with the highest incidence of TB in America, and at the other end, Uruguay, Chile and Cuba are in the process of eradicating TB as a public health problem. The rate of incidence of the disease reported in Lima and Callao and other parts of the country exceeds the incidence in neighboring countries like Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Chile.
The metropolitan area of Lima and Callao is the city with the highest incidence rate of new cases of TB among the major cities of the continent, ahead of cities like Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Bogot?, Santiago of Chille and Mexico City. How to prevent TB
Tuberculosis is a disease that spreads easily through the air and can attack any organ of the body, but mainly the lungs. TB treatment is free.
TB is spread through saliva droplets that travel through the air when someone with TB coughs, sneezes, spits, talks, sings, and so on.
Symptoms of TB include coughing with phlegm for more than 15 days, night sweats, fever, fatigue, weight loss, lack of appetite.
To avoid spread of TB is recommended to ventilate and illuminate the rooms of the house to remove the virus, eating a healthy and balanced, as well as prevent drug use.