Argentina: "The pediatric-care system collapsed"

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Source: http://www.ciudad1.com/Notas-1129-El-sistema-pediatrico-de-atencion-colapso-

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"The pediatric-care system collapsed"
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Undersecretary of Health of Buenos Aires, Edgardo Trivisonno said he porte?os hospitals "are in a state of collapse" because of the exponential increase in consultations for influenza A (H1N1).

With 256 confirmed cases in the country of the so-called swine flu, and 886 under process of laboratories, in the last hours health centers porte?os admitted the situation "collapse" after much consultation, to be joined to requests for care linked to cases of seasonal influenza and bronchiolitis.

Thus, social work and business of prepaid medical warned that lived a situation of "psychosis" and stressed that the influenza virus A (H1N1) is not an emergency, as if it was a heart attack. "

This was confirmed in statements to DyN by former undersecretary of Health of Buenos Aires, Edgardo Trivisonno, who said that "the pediatric care system collapsed for several things, such as psychosis with influenza A, which means that before any symptoms of fever, the Parents are scared and called. Therefore, physicians caring (home) 24 hours after the first call, "he explained.

"The prepaid do not support the amount of calls and recommend it to the guards, and there's six hours of delay. Guti?rrez Hospital have 700 queries per day, the laboratory gives results Malbr?n ten days, so when reported new cases, these cases are just people who are cured, "the former official.

To solve the problem, recommended Trivisonno enabling more diagnostic centers as Malbr?n. There should be more sites, because this is only beginning, "he warned.

 

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Re: Argentina: "The pediatric-care system collapsed"

Source: http://sdpnoticias.com/sdp/contenido/2009/06/10/418464

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Collapse of medical services denied by influenza in Argentina
Today 12:52 --

Buenos Aires, 10 Jun (Notimex) .- The government of Buenos Aires today denied that medical services in the province are collapsed by the growing epidemic of human influenza despite the psychosis generated by the increase in infections and closing schools.

"The system is not collapsing, is sobredemandado," said Health Minister Claudio Zin, after doctors reported that there is saturation in the consultations in hospitals and at home by people who fear suffering from the flu.

The official said that authorities are aware that the number of cases, which amounts to 256, will be increasing, although assured that medical services have the capacity to provide care efficiently.

"Argentina is ready, not lack either a chinstrap is input and answers, the problem is that this epidemic is sobredemanda system, but the mortality rate is very low, does not cause complications," he explained.

Zin said that the contagion spreads quickly, but felt that the South American country will not have more than 500 cases and, most likely, no death.

Furthermore he warned that if the World Health Organization (WHO) said the six-level pandemic, "we do not change anything, our epidemiological situation is exactly the same, but it will scare more people."

In the austral winter season, it is natural that the number of consultations for health problems arising from influenza is increased in Argentina.

However, what it has been unusual this time is that there are long queues at public hospitals, and the saturation of demand for medical service at home, which is experiencing a delay of up to two days.

Jorge Mendiola, vice president of the Chambers of Federal Emergency Medical Capital, warned that 95 percent of home care being taken over by people who only suffered from a common flu.

"In the world, the medical system there is no home for a flu," he warned, before the strain that this service has had in Argentina.

He further stated that "there is no capacity or human resources to meet this demand, the guards at the hospital there are delays of up to five hours."