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Increase to the 21 human deaths from influenza in the country
Monday July 6, 2009
Source: ANSA
SANTIAGO .- The number of deaths in Chile because of the flu AH1N1 increased to 21 according to official figures.
The number of deaths increased after it was confirmed that the deaths of two people, a man and a woman in San Antonio and the city of Tome.
The man of 52 years a native of San Antonio, after suffering a respiratory disease, which complicated their treatment.
"I had a chronic lung disease and was being treated for lymphoma," explained the director of the health service of the cities of Valparaiso and San Antonio, Dagoberto Duarte.
Health Minister Alvaro Erazo, reported that hospital admissions for respiratory diseases in adults increased by 20 percent, while the children had low from week to week.
For its part, the president of the Association of Primary Care Physicians, Camilo Bass, estimated at half a million cases of infection with influenza A in Chile, which contrasts with the official information of 8,000 people confirmed. "We do not have a figure for total cases, but taking into account all that antiviral treatments have been delivered free of charge at clinics and hospitals, and the level of overloading, we believe we have exceeded the 500 thousand cases," said Bass In statements to Radio DNA.
The doctor stressed that primary care was severely overloaded by demand, and because many workers in the system are licensed health.
The president of the Medical College, Pablo Rodriguez, in turn, felt that "it is likely that all the people working today in the health services' becoming infected at some point.
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Increase to the 21 human deaths from influenza in the country
Monday July 6, 2009
Source: ANSA
SANTIAGO .- The number of deaths in Chile because of the flu AH1N1 increased to 21 according to official figures.
The number of deaths increased after it was confirmed that the deaths of two people, a man and a woman in San Antonio and the city of Tome.
The man of 52 years a native of San Antonio, after suffering a respiratory disease, which complicated their treatment.
"I had a chronic lung disease and was being treated for lymphoma," explained the director of the health service of the cities of Valparaiso and San Antonio, Dagoberto Duarte.
Health Minister Alvaro Erazo, reported that hospital admissions for respiratory diseases in adults increased by 20 percent, while the children had low from week to week.
For its part, the president of the Association of Primary Care Physicians, Camilo Bass, estimated at half a million cases of infection with influenza A in Chile, which contrasts with the official information of 8,000 people confirmed. "We do not have a figure for total cases, but taking into account all that antiviral treatments have been delivered free of charge at clinics and hospitals, and the level of overloading, we believe we have exceeded the 500 thousand cases," said Bass In statements to Radio DNA.
The doctor stressed that primary care was severely overloaded by demand, and because many workers in the system are licensed health.
The president of the Medical College, Pablo Rodriguez, in turn, felt that "it is likely that all the people working today in the health services' becoming infected at some point.
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