Blagoveshchensk: surge in the incidence of pneumonia

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Source: http://www.amur.info/news/2009/10/16/16.html

In Blagoveshchensk marked surge in the incidence of pneumonia

In Blagoveshchensk growing number of people ill with pneumonia. Doctors say it is premature surge in the incidence. The only thing in Blagoveshchensk branch of Pulmonology crowded. In the ward 60 beds, and the sick - almost 100 people. Doctors have to use other office or place patients in hospital corridors.

"Began a surge of pneumonia, which we normally expect somewhere in the end of December or in early February-March, when SARS and the flu begins. This year we have increased pneumonia fell in September ", - said Nadezhda Sidorenko, Deputy Head of Urban Health Administration. Only in August was hospitalized 32 children. Almost as many children fell ill during the entire first quarter of this year. Currently hospitals for pneumonia treated 137 adults and 60 children. Doctors prescribed more often in the open air, ventilate the room and not neglect the vaccine.

Due to lack of beds in a hospital operating a city hospital had to be refitted in the House: to put the cot, place the patients. Patient Sergei Ignatiev and his friends in need are the first tenants. "Due to the fact that the office was pulmonary perepolnenomenya, like many others, received the same day, placed in a department where the place was. Personally, I was sent to lorotdelenie, - tells the patient. - Here Vladimir Ivanovich, Oleg Pavlovich - they do not place it turned out, and they lay day at the entrance to the office near the elevator in the aisle, with the temperature.

Sergei Ignatiev and Oleg Mikheev came here with a diagnosis of "pneumonia". With this disease in the department of pulmonology now almost a hundred people, and it is designed only for 60 beds. This is the only branch in the city. To accommodate patients, using all adapted and unsuitable premises. And nurses do not have time to serve all. "Big overcrowding does not allow here to support proper sanitation - the patient complains Branch Oleg Mikheev. - You know, what is it? Here, let's say, we are here over a week. Carry, for example, knock off a little dust - the girls busy. They feed the patients, more or less suggest perfect order and the time to put our shots. "

Treatment and diet, patients are satisfied. But the living conditions leave much to be desired. The department no shower, and sleep in the corridors, not all easy. Chief doctor of the hospital in that does not see anything wrong. "I am a great tragedy if the patient is admitted and spent the night there, or how few hours spent in the corridor, I can not find. Although, of course, it is inconvenient, - said the chief doctor Sergei Petrukhin. - Nevertheless, they are basic and important to why they came here. They receive medication assistance, screening and attention from medical personnel. Here is a basic and important thing. " And Sergei Petrukhin, and management of health professionals argue that a larger number of beds pulmonology department is not required. This is a temporary surge in the incidence of pneumonia, which happens every year. According to the forecasts of doctors, two weeks, the number of cases should go down. Then the seats in the department of pulmonology will be in excess ... until the next outbreak of pneumonia.

This rise in the incidence in Blagoveshchensk was not the last five years. An even greater surge of cases of pneumonia was observed in 2003-2004. Then also in the offices of Pulmonology not enough seats, but there were two offices. Both were calculated for about 60 beds. Last spring, the department combined, rather, left one for 60 seats.

 

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Re: Blagoveshchensk: surge in the incidence of pneumonia

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Annunciation Gorbolnitsa full of patients with pneumonia
Ministry of Health, the area now disassembled, with which connected unexpected surge in the disease

Tatiana Smirnova - 19.10.2009 09:59

To date, hospitalized in the city hospital almost twice as much as can take pulmonology. Doctors did not expect takogov burst, so we had to release the new arrivals from the transaction. Among the sick both adults and children. As experts say, increasing the number of cases of pneumonia was predicted only in late December or early next year.

Unlike Blagoveshchensk in the areas of the field until the situation is normal. What caused a surge in the incidence of the regional center, is now understands doh Amur.

- We have deliberated on this matter at the end of last week, asked for help in managing the health of Blagoveshchensk. One can assume that the increase in morbidity associated with the weather. In summer it was rainy, the sun low, the people ultimately did not prokvartsevalsya, the immunity is weakened. That's the result, - said Deputy Minister of Health of the Amur region, Valentina Kravchenko.

 

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Re: Blagoveshchensk: surge in the incidence of pneumonia

Source: http://www.amur.info/news/2009/10/22/15.html

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Due to the outbreak of pneumonia and acute respiratory clinics Blagoveshchensk will operate seven days a week

Polyclinics city of Blagoveshchensk moving to a seven-day workweek. Admission on Saturdays and Sundays will be from 8 to 14 hours. This measure urban governance health has taken in response to the rising incidence of ARI and pneumonia. This will also reduce the number of calls to emergency doctors. Meanwhile, in Blagoveshchensk number of cases of pneumonia continues to grow. With pneumonia in a city hospital are 175 patients, 13 of them in serious condition.

Also diagnosed with pneumonia raised 91 children. These findings today at a press conference voiced by officers of the city health. In the city clinic and children's hospitals, part of the premises is redesigned for the sick with pneumonia, and now there is no shortage of beds. Beginning in October, all health facilities operating reinforced sanitary-epidemiological profile. Premises thoroughly disinfected, put mask mode and is limited to visiting patients. In the offices of Pulmonology employs doctors from other departments, as well as specialists of profile departments of the Amur MEDICAL ACADEMY. All urban clinic moved to a seven-day mode.

"Rainy summer, autumn and cold heating season, which we would like to see started two weeks earlier, contributed to the child's body in general, and adult, including, weakened, there was a decrease of immunity", - said Deputy Chief Public Health Elena Kalashnikov. Pneumonia often causes complication after acute respiratory viral infection. In the evening time doctors spend on schools and secondary specialized dorm raids to identify diseased ARI. Doctors report that outbreaks of pneumonia in Blagoveshchensk register every 5 years. The latter was observed in 2003-2004. This year, in September alone died from pneumonia five people from the same month last year - seven, in October 2009 the first deaths of eight, and last October, there were nine.

This year, pneumonia doctors called dumb. In most cases, it can be revealed only by X-ray images, visible manifestations of the disease smoothed. If SARS is high fever and dry cough. The symptoms of normal seasonal influenza is almost the same, but they added more and runny nose. When pathogens or swine influenza, a fairly high temperature - up to 40 degrees, humidity, diarrhea and vomiting.

 

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Re: Blagoveshchensk: surge in the incidence of pneumonia

Source: http://www.ampravda.ru/2009/10/22/023613.html


"Enigmatic" pneumonia
Blagoveschentsy with a serious diagnosis continue to attack the hospital
Residents of the regional center is still susceptible to pneumonia. The diagnosis of "pneumonia" from the beginning of the year was 910 patients have already put the city hospital, almost 30% over last year's figure. This autumn SARS outbreak in the city above the epidemic threshold by more than 9%.
Pulmonology Blagoveshchensk city hospital crowded with more than a month now: the townspeople knocks down pneumonia. In order to assist those in need, the medical institutions are forced to use beds in adjacent offices and recruit the additional staff. Since the beginning of this week in pulmonology recuperate about 160 people.

Officially, this outbreak of diseases physicians call a seasonal, though, "Season of pneumonia" at this time, some have moved - usually peak in the regional capital accounts for more cold weather and on the expectations that this year was to begin no earlier than November. Department of Health urged the city not to panic and "harvest" pneumonia is simple: the immunity of citizens undermined rainy summer. People used to get sick from France - had "poured" and complications.

Meanwhile, the very nature of the September pneumonia worries doctors: too quickly it develops.

- Pneumonia this year is really very much, and it can be called is not quite normal, - shared observations practitioner of one of the clinics of the city. - For pneumonia usually develops on the background of SARS or influenza as a complication of recovering from a viral infection. Those cases with which we are now dealing with, flashing lightning. Thus, the patient can come to me at the reception with the usual symptoms of acute respiratory viral infection, and tomorrow he was diagnosed with "pneumonia" and urgently hospitalized.

Doctors, faced this fall in their practice with pneumonia, believe that mass illness - is a consequence of effects on the body of a new virus. Set its nature is not always possible - take virological tests everyone who is drawn to the clinic with symptoms of SARS, it is impossible.

Many people ask: "Is not pork it is the flu?" After all, according to experts in the pages of the central media, is a disease characterized as a time for him. Influenza virus A / H1N1 is not terrible in itself, but the fact that in a short period of time, serious complications, and pneumonia - the main one.

Meanwhile, according to official figures, Blagoveshchensk in the strip swine flu has not yet entered. In arriving at the city hospital pulmonology take adequate samples - according to the chief doctor Sergei Petrukhin, they are all negative.

- We regularly send samples to the study - said Sergey. - The analysis of these indications of a viral etiology, has not yet been found. Let me just say that all patients come to us already with a comprehensive clinical picture of acute pneumonia, which requires the anti-inflammatory therapy. In most cases, it turns out to be very successful.

Dress - mask

Is it possible to protect themselves from the insidious virus, and what this means to better use, we decided to find a doctor medical center "diagnostician" Marina Chirkova.

- The best way to overcome the virus - to put his mechanical barrier - the Council Marina Andreyevna. - This is a common medical mask. This is a very effective tool if it is properly put in time and change. Of course, you should not go to extremes and wear a mask everywhere, but in areas with large concentrations of people to wear required. Do not hesitate to "hide" behind the mask, selecting the products in the supermarket or sitting in a movie theater. Do not be fooled that you stand out from the crowd - you do care about your health. You may file a good example of others, and in the near future, it must follow. With regard to preventive drugs, then I would recommend traditional multivitamins. You can drop in nose interferon or Grippferon, although this is an antiviral drug action and assign them to the doctor. In premises spend wet cleaning, adding chlorine to the water, use quartz lamps for air disinfection, ventilate the room often. If you feel good, put a flu shot. Modern vaccines have not only antiviral but also immunomodulatory effects.

City "decimated" the virus mutated?

No health leaders trying not to exaggerate about the situation with pneumonia, doctors are beginning to sound the alarm. "AP" has talked to one of the Annunciation pulmonologists, who assured us that the outbreak of pneumonia in the regional center turns into a real epidemic.

- The city is literally wallows in pneumonia. According to my latest data, in hospitals today from this disease are treated more than 250 people. Hospitals are overcrowded, people are in the corridors. The disease occurs very hard, especially vulnerable children of different ages. In the department receives the whole families, which certainly suggests that the root cause of pneumonia - a virus. That's only what, no one gave us the answer. Federal Service and Office of Public Health are silent, we can only domyslivat what actually happens. Now my colleagues have come to believe that inflammation of the lungs causes a mutant virus that attacks the body can not independently and in combination with the bacterium. That is why pneumonia often begins on the first day, when the SARS symptoms. The patient develops a fever, but no cough. Affliction has beskashlevuyu insidious form - simply affects the lungs. Therefore, at the slightest symptoms of colds everyone should run to the therapist so as not to miss a more serious illness - the source said "AP".

Ekaterina Kuzmina

 

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Re: Blagoveshchensk: surge in the incidence of pneumonia

Source: http://briansk.ru/world/onishenko-obyasnil-vspyshku-ah1n1-v-rossii.20091023.219243.html

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Onishchenko told A/H1N1 outbreak in Russia
October 23, 2009, Friday, 14:47 | Discuss | Print | Home

The number of officially registered cases of influenza A/H1N1 in Russia has exceeded one thousand. Meanwhile, according to the chief state sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko, this figure is expected, since the children went to school.

"All cases of influenza, this morning - 1,040 thousand, of them 580 - importations" - he said at a press conference in Moscow. "This suggests that we have started their own circulation of the virus," - said Onishchenko.

He noted that of 1,040 cases of swine flu, registered in Russia, more than 500 (56%) of cases - children from seven to 14 years. "This is what we expected, because the children went to school" - added the chief state sanitary doctor. According to the latest information, the virus is observed in 56 subjects of the Federation, RIA Novosti reported.

Speaking about the vaccination of the population in Russia against seasonal influenza, Onishchenko reminded that all will instill 27 million, but so far vaccinated 17 million children and adults. According to him, the schedule of vaccination against seasonal influenza vaccine is made by children by 79% and vaccination schedule for adults performed by 47%.

In addition, he said that in some Russian regions exceeded the epidemic threshold for week-long illness caused by seasonal influenza. Among the most affected by the virus cities - Barnaul, St. Petersburg, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Khabarovsk, Chita, Abakan and Khakassia.

According to Interfax, Onishchenko also stressed that the regions in vain close all schools because of the seasonal flu, because it is not necessary. He said that in some cities, authorities are "psevdoryanost": "They took all schools in the Murmansk region have closed, although they have a low incidence.

Russia's chief sanitary doctor also said that the situation with the outbreak of pneumonia in Blagoveshchensk no longer cause for concern. According to him, most of the nearly 200 sick already fully recovered. Onishchenko also noted that the outbreak occurred because of the seasonal rise of the incidence of influenza and SARS, which is a complication of pneumonia.

Bryansk.ru reports