Buenos Aires province, City agreed that H1N1 consultations at hospitals dropped

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Buenos Aires province, City agreed that H1N1 consultations at hospitals dropped

Buenos Aires province governor, Daniel Scioli, said "I have been to Berazategui's, Malvinas Argentinas', Ca?uelas', Florencio Varela's and Merlo's Hospitals and their authorities told me that H1N1 consultations decreased," since the pandemic outbreak.

Scioli added that "the measures applied to prevent the virus spread and the availability of Tamiflu" caused a drop in medical consultations.

Mauricio Macri, Buenos Aires City Mayor, also said that "the situation is better than last week and the H1N1 consultations in hospitals has dropped" since the pandemic outbreak.

Macri added that at the Ricardo Guti?rrez' Children Hospital "the consultations dropped from 600 to 150."

The City Mayor confirmed that there will not be health time-off in the City and said that the best way to prevent the Influenza A spread is "the hygiene, the self isolation if you have symptoms and avoid the auto medication."

Meanwhile, Scioli said that the health time-off is a "reasonable decision."

 

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Swine flu
Buenos Aires province, City agreed that H1N1 consultations at hospitals dropped

Buenos Aires province governor, Daniel Scioli, said "I have been to Berazategui's, Malvinas Argentinas', Ca?uelas', Florencio Varela's and Merlo's Hospitals and their authorities told me that H1N1 consultations decreased," since the pandemic outbreak.

Scioli added that "the measures applied to prevent the virus spread and the availability of Tamiflu" caused a drop in medical consultations.

Mauricio Macri, Buenos Aires City Mayor, also said that "the situation is better than last week and the H1N1 consultations in hospitals has dropped" since the pandemic outbreak.

Macri added that at the Ricardo Guti?rrez' Children Hospital "the consultations dropped from 600 to 150."

The City Mayor confirmed that there will not be health time-off in the City and said that the best way to prevent the Influenza A spread is "the hygiene, the self isolation if you have symptoms and avoid the auto medication."

Meanwhile, Scioli said that the health time-off is a "reasonable decision."

I simply do not know what to think about this announcement. It does not make a lot of sense to me since the flu season has just begun in the South and the novel strain has likely replaced the seasonal strains there as it has in Australia. Regrettably, what these considerations mean to me is that the case rate has just begun to rise in Argentina and will continue to do so for at least the next 6 weeks.

After all Argentina is being confronted by a novel strain to which no Argentine has immunity. The virus has spread rapidly around the country as well as the entire South American continent. While Tamiflu is an effective treatment at this time, Argentina does not have an adequate stockpile to impact the viral spread. It is these conditions that cause me to doubt that the pandemic has slowed within that great nation.

GW

 

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Source: http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/4...días-se-duplicaron-contagios-gripe-A-Santa-Fe

Doubled in five days for influenza A infections in Santa Fe


The Santa Fe Deputy Minister of Health warned that "those infected by the disease almost doubled since arriving on Saturday and currently about 18,300 people affected by the virus. In Buenos Aires ensure reduced consultations

Santa Fe doubled cases of influenza A in just five days, local health authorities said today, while the province of Buenos Aires confirmed a decrease in consultations after a meeting with directors of 77 public hospitals of Buenos Aires.

Health Minister of Entre Rios, Angel Giano confirmed that a man of 63 years died of influenza A in the province, which came to 86 the number of deaths from the disease in the country, according to reports from the provincial and city of Buenos Aires.

In contrast, the national Ministry of Health, which was not publicized figures from Sunday, he admitted tonight, only 82 deaths, four fewer than the local portfolio, confirmed that while 2677 people were infected with virus A (H1N1) as of April 26 .

Giano said the man died from influenza A, who lived in the town Villa Libertador San Mart?n, Entre Diamond department, died just 10 days. "

Sources at the Ministry of Health of the Nation, meanwhile, told DyN the owner of the portfolio, Juan Manzur, met with specialists in the field of epidemiology and the Institute for Malbr?n "develop consensus for the analysis of decentralization samples of the new flu. "

In Santa Fe, the Deputy Minister of Health, Debora Ferrandini, warned that "those infected by influenza A have nearly doubled since last Saturday, reaching about 18,300 people currently affected by the virus. So far the number of fatalities, 22 has not changed. "

"The number of infected is based on 90% of influenza A cases is, therefore everything that is given as necessary to account for them as influenza is influenza A," the official said in statements to the press.

Ferrandini emphasized that "allows us to produce such information to be sure that this is not an epidemic more lethal than the rest of the world or even other flu."

In that sense, he explained that "the number of cases is very high in a very short time, and comparing the number of deaths, the ratio (deaths) is very low."

"We're not in a particularly virulent virus, a virus that we are fundamentally committed to the population at risk" due to other diseases basis, explained the vice minister of Health.

Ferrandini said that "the disease occurs in younger age groups that the common flu" and warned that "the average age of victims of fatal influenza A is 42 years. This means that the strip is between 20 and 50 years."

The City of Buenos Aires incorporated 19 new acute general hospitals and three children to the distribution network of specific medication for the treatment of the new flu.

The aim of the measure, said the local health portfolio in a statement, is that "the remedies available to the patient."

The governor of Buenos Aires, Daniel Scioli, returned to defend the health care provided for morning break at the Buenos Aires government to prevent further spread of the flu, to the measure as "the most desirable."

"Every district in implementing its self-test, we understand that it is far more convenient to take," the governor told the press.

Scioli said it ordered the vacation of health "because, besides, we saw some buildings in the risk of contracting the flu and therefore we take this precautionary measure by exploiting this day holiday over the sandwich."

The City of Buenos Aires confirmed that local government will work as normal, since the strategy against influenza A porte?a promotes "self" and not the restriction of social activity and work.

The governor met with directors of 77 public hospitals in the province to discuss the evolution of influenza A and attributed the decrease in the number of the measures implemented in the district.

Health Minister bonaerense, Claudio Zin, said that "all outpatient visits declined between 30 and 40 percent of international and 20 to 25 percent" and said: "We have beds and supplies available to attack the influenza A .

Source: DyN

 

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Cases of influenza A drop in the City and the Province, but rise in the interior
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The highest contamination was found in C?rdoba, Mendoza and Santa Fe Given this, the Health Minister's Office explained that "grow in the cases because the pandemic arrived here after it hit the metropolitan area." In turn, said: "We must be very careful because no one knows how it will be the curve of evolution of the virus"


Cases of influenza A down in the city of Buenos Aires and the Province, pointed out in both districts, who said that consultations and international have fallen. However, inside the country there are peaks in demand for care, especially in Cordoba, Mendoza and Santa Fe

But that's not all. While in the last week there were eight deaths from influenza in the new territory and the capital Buenos Aires, in the rest of Argentina were 24 deaths.

In fact, the deputy minister of Health in Santa Fe, D?bora Ferrandini, said that since Saturday doubled the number of people affected by the virus and the number of patients reached 18,300. Meanwhile, Mendoza also doubled the number of patients and inmates.

Moreover, in the Rawson Hospital in Cordoba served, on average, a total of 350 people per day for these cases, said the hospital's director, Hugo Roland, and La Pampa recorded a peak demand of the attention on guard .

For its part, which corresponds to the province of Buenos Aires, officials said that "all outpatient visits declined between 30 and 40%, and international, between 20 and 25 percent."

In the city, the head of government of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, a few days ago, said: "In the hospitals is decreasing the level of demand and consultation, we are better than a week ago."

Carlos Chiarelli, medical adviser of the Chamber of Medical Emergencies in the Capital, agreed with this and said that demand for home care of patients and social work fell prepaid.

However, the deputy director of the Hospital Pi?ero, Jorge De Luca, said that the decline in cases "not reassuring: historically July and August are peak months in the care of respiratory illness."

Given this, the Minister of Health of the Nation, Juan Manzur, explained that "grow in the cases because the pandemic arrived here after it hit the metropolitan area."

In addition, he said: "Although down and international consultations and in Capital GBA must be very cautious because we still do not know how it will be the curve of evolution of the virus," the newspaper Clarin published.
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