Re: El Salvador Dengue 2012
" MINSAL starts the second national day of battle against dengue "
[24-Aug-2012]
Ciudad Delgado, San Salvador, August 24, 2012. Ciudad Delgado was the scene to begin the institutional phase of the national campaign against dengue, this day will end with the community stage on Sunday August 26, when it is National Day celebrates the battle against this disease. "San Salvador, in general, provides 70 percent of cases of dengue, but Delgado chose City because Mayor Miner has presented an excellent plan has been duly advised by staff the metropolitan area of Health, and we think that has all the elements so that the municipality can get away with in this day and successful battle against the murderer mosquito quiet it is, "said Dr. Eduardo Espinoza, Deputy Minister of Health.
The purpose of the day - which lasts three days - is to break the chain of transmission of the disease and only achieved in workplaces and homes, destroying mosquito breeding sites and isolate anyone who is infected with the disease. " We sectorized with advice from the Ministry of Health here in Ciudad Delgado, the concentration of our efforts will be in San Sebastian that implies, today we are going to spray, what abatizamos morning and removing these three days we have everything useless and family are our this truck collecting and destroying mosquito breeding sites, "said Mr. Thomas Miner, Mayor of Ciudad Delgado. addition to the mayor and the deputy health minister took the Governor of San Salvador, Fernando Gonzalez, the Departmental Director of the Ministry of Education, Lilian Benavides and Ms. Sara Velasco, leader of town.
And representatives of other institutions that have joined this effort, as the Health Solidarity Fund ( FOSALUD ), Salvadoran Social Security Institute ( ISSS ), Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Education, NGOs, among others. The "National Day of Fight against Dengue" or "D-Day" was institutionalized in 2005 by legislative decree, to raise public awareness about the dangers of the disease, and the performance of preventive government actions in the fight against dengue in El Salvador, which made efforts to eliminate breeding sites and spraying Abbe distribution sites increased risk.
To date, the Ministry of Health (MINSAL) reported 20,068 suspected cases of dengue 2,448 hospitalizations, 5000 390 confirmed cases, of which 5,098 and 292 correspond to the type dengue serious.
http://www.salud.gob.sv/index.php/n...-jornada-nacional-de-combate-contra-el-dengue
Confirms third death from dengue
Health Authorities consider that "responding well" to control the infection, because "there are so many deaths as in other countries"
LILIAN MARTINEZ
NACIONAL@ELDIARIODEHOY.COM
Friday, August 24, 2012
A girl of 12 months, originally from Santiago Nonualco, is the third victim of dengue. The child entered the Benjamin Bloom Children's Hospital on August 7, was treated in the intensive care unit and died three days later.
The case was confirmed yesterday by Deputy Health Minister Eduardo Espinoza, after inaugurating the Second National Conference on Combating Dengue in Ciudad Delgado.
If someone suspects that a third death is evidence of deficiencies in the detection and treatment of disease, wields Espinoza: "We have three people to date, but Honduras and has more than 90 dead, over 25 Guatemala, Panama 20, Paraguay 60, Brazil 200, the U.S. has four. "
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http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/nota_completa.asp?idCat=47673&idArt=7193923
