Ecuador: Two people die from pneumonia in central area

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Nelson Gerardo C., 56, and Mary Martha P., 34, died of acute pneumonia at the central zone of the country. Nelson, a native of Patate (Tungurahua), entered on June 12 to hospital insurance and ten days passed away. While Mary lived in Latacunga, he entered on July 8 and died the next day.According to the diagnosis of income, two people had a clinical picture of severe pneumonia. The technical director of hospitalization of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS), Patricio Maldonado, said that tests came out negative for H1N1 flu, but they are worried about the rapid evolution of the pneumonic box.Maldonado reported that 11 people are under observation in the hospital of the IESS, three of them in intensive care with the same clinical picture. ' Although the viral results are negative, the precautions are taken because cases of pneumonia are not common. In this cold season, pictures of pneumonia are typical, but not rapid evolution as seen with patients in observation ', said Chief of the IESS hospitalizations in Tungurahua.Mientras that Luis Silva, medical director of the critical Area of the IESS, noted that patients who died had a rapid evolution that affected several organs. ' It is an evolution that we are not accustomed. They are similar to H1N1 flu virus picture and tabled in people not older than age 60 and other diseases '.

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