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http://www.elheraldo.co/local/zona-cachacal-lanza-sos-por-casos-de-vih-y-tuberculosis-62586
Spanish-English translation
Colombia/Cachacal Zone launches SOS for cases of HIV and Tuberculosis
Most infected, according to La Cale?a, are drug addicts and street people.
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Inhabitants of the 'area cachacal' ask not to be forgotten
Images from Ground Cachacal
Ana Isabel Berruecos, better known as The Zone Cale?a in Cachacal, says that since coming to that area in Barranquilla depressing, about 40, has buried more than 60 people, drug addicts, street people and prostitutes who have died from violence and disease.
Now you have to keep burying distress people by the numerous cases that, she says, have yielded positive tests for HIV and tuberculosis. States that are about 80 and infected, mostly homeless who frequent the area, located between San Roque and the Centre.
"The situation is very worrying because these people do not have a place to intern and provide the necessary treatments. In the General Hospital emergency care for them, but soon after they are discharged because there is no ability to keep them there until they recover. "
Notes that since the pavilion closed for HIV patients in this hospital, the problem has worsened since "the infected left homeless, do not give medicines and are dying like animals lying in the street."
For community leader, who worked as a prostitute and was rehabilitated from addiction to drugs, one of the priorities of that community is the construction of a shelter where everyone can live with dignity. That is what the mayor said Elsa Noguera on a visit the president made Cachacal Zone on Saturday.
Asked by the Herald, Secretary of Health District, Alma Solano said that has been working with homeless people for identification of cases with tuberculosis.
Reported to have detected 200 infected in the city and receive treatment at a place called El Patio, enabled by the Ministry of Social Management in the district Rebolo.
In terms of HIV cases in Cachacal Zone, the official announced that verify the figures released by The Cale?a, because "they are not official and should not alarm the community."
However, undertook to ensure care necessary for the affected population. "I started to check the census of sex workers, according to which there are about 1,800 in Barranquilla".
He explained that "having an exclusive pavilion for the issue of HIV is discriminatory because they are people who at one point could be accommodated in any hospital. What's more, today's network services Barranquilla has insulated rooms where their conditions so warrant, which can not be in contact with other risk factors, and shared rooms for cases in which their condition does not require isolation. "
Spanish-English translation
Colombia/Cachacal Zone launches SOS for cases of HIV and Tuberculosis
Most infected, according to La Cale?a, are drug addicts and street people.
Related Resources
Inhabitants of the 'area cachacal' ask not to be forgotten
Images from Ground Cachacal
Ana Isabel Berruecos, better known as The Zone Cale?a in Cachacal, says that since coming to that area in Barranquilla depressing, about 40, has buried more than 60 people, drug addicts, street people and prostitutes who have died from violence and disease.
Now you have to keep burying distress people by the numerous cases that, she says, have yielded positive tests for HIV and tuberculosis. States that are about 80 and infected, mostly homeless who frequent the area, located between San Roque and the Centre.
"The situation is very worrying because these people do not have a place to intern and provide the necessary treatments. In the General Hospital emergency care for them, but soon after they are discharged because there is no ability to keep them there until they recover. "
Notes that since the pavilion closed for HIV patients in this hospital, the problem has worsened since "the infected left homeless, do not give medicines and are dying like animals lying in the street."
For community leader, who worked as a prostitute and was rehabilitated from addiction to drugs, one of the priorities of that community is the construction of a shelter where everyone can live with dignity. That is what the mayor said Elsa Noguera on a visit the president made Cachacal Zone on Saturday.
Asked by the Herald, Secretary of Health District, Alma Solano said that has been working with homeless people for identification of cases with tuberculosis.
Reported to have detected 200 infected in the city and receive treatment at a place called El Patio, enabled by the Ministry of Social Management in the district Rebolo.
In terms of HIV cases in Cachacal Zone, the official announced that verify the figures released by The Cale?a, because "they are not official and should not alarm the community."
However, undertook to ensure care necessary for the affected population. "I started to check the census of sex workers, according to which there are about 1,800 in Barranquilla".
He explained that "having an exclusive pavilion for the issue of HIV is discriminatory because they are people who at one point could be accommodated in any hospital. What's more, today's network services Barranquilla has insulated rooms where their conditions so warrant, which can not be in contact with other risk factors, and shared rooms for cases in which their condition does not require isolation. "