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Haiti-Health: More than 300 cases of severe fever Hinche since 10 days
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Correspondence Ronel Odatte
Hinche, October 2, 2014 [AlterPresse] --- More than 300 people, including children, have been admitted in recent days, public Hopital Sainte Therese in Hinche (capital of central Plateau) confirms AlterPresse medical director of the main hospital in the town, Dr. Jean Daniel Laguerre.
Every day, general and pediatric emergency rooms, the main hospital in Hinche, are crowded.
Patients and patients presenting with symptoms of fever that the hospital failed to identify lack of convincing results of laboratory analyzes.
"Signs exhibited resemble typhoid fever. But we find it difficult to make an accurate diagnosis, as we would not have the results of laboratory tests, "says Dr. Laguerre.
Laguerre also admits practiced emergency response 6 of 6 people who were about to be swept away by this severe fever.
"We can not say exactly what it is about. However, important steps must be taken with this disease, "the doctor recommends.
Thinking be suffering from chikungunya, some patients choose not to go to the hospital, but to administer their own treatments.
When their health is to deteriorate, they automatically head for the public hospital in Hinche.
The result is sometimes complications with the sudden appearance of this severe fever.
Monday 29 and Tuesday, September 30, 2014, the emergency room of a public hospital in Hinche St. Teresa was full of patients and patients. Outside, dozens of people were complaining about not being able to find a doctor who could see them immediately.
"I already came twice. No one supported my case, "says AlterPresse a woman who was with her sick child.
"There is a shortage of doctors. It does not tell us the truth. There is a secret that is not revealed, "she believes.
The local director of the Department of Public Health and Population (MSPP), Dr. Jean Reynold Rejoice, not to mention cases of hundreds of people, who are victims of any unknown fever.
Reached by telephone Friday, September 26, 2014, Dr. Rejoice made mention preferably 15 patients received daily at Ste Therese Hospital in Hinche.
"There are lots of patients who come to daily. But not everyone has all the same symptoms, "does he know.
Dr. Rejoice promised an inquiry into the situation.
"And if there is risk of epidemic, we will make the appropriate solution," he argues.
"For now, all those who want numbers, are referred to our office," says Dr. John Reynold Rejoice.
Moreover, cholera is back in Hinche.
Several cases of cholera were recenc?s during the last week of September 2014.
There are children, big people as well as old, lying on beds of cholera treatment center (ctc), observes AlterPresse.
Dr. Jean Daniel Laguerre reported, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, 20 cases of hospitalization.
More than twenty people, with symptoms of cholera, come daily to St. Therese Hospital in Hinche.
The rains, which abbattent the Department of the Central Plateau, and the abandonment of regular hygiene practices are the factors put forward to explain the rise of the disease Cholera in Hinche.
Meanwhile, the city of Hinche is no longer supplied with drinking water for two weeks.
Some people use the river water to meet the daily household needs. [ro kft rc apr 10/02/2014 2:00]
http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article17083
Haiti-Health: More than 300 cases of severe fever Hinche since 10 days
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Correspondence Ronel Odatte
Hinche, October 2, 2014 [AlterPresse] --- More than 300 people, including children, have been admitted in recent days, public Hopital Sainte Therese in Hinche (capital of central Plateau) confirms AlterPresse medical director of the main hospital in the town, Dr. Jean Daniel Laguerre.
Every day, general and pediatric emergency rooms, the main hospital in Hinche, are crowded.
Patients and patients presenting with symptoms of fever that the hospital failed to identify lack of convincing results of laboratory analyzes.
"Signs exhibited resemble typhoid fever. But we find it difficult to make an accurate diagnosis, as we would not have the results of laboratory tests, "says Dr. Laguerre.
Laguerre also admits practiced emergency response 6 of 6 people who were about to be swept away by this severe fever.
"We can not say exactly what it is about. However, important steps must be taken with this disease, "the doctor recommends.
Thinking be suffering from chikungunya, some patients choose not to go to the hospital, but to administer their own treatments.
When their health is to deteriorate, they automatically head for the public hospital in Hinche.
The result is sometimes complications with the sudden appearance of this severe fever.
Monday 29 and Tuesday, September 30, 2014, the emergency room of a public hospital in Hinche St. Teresa was full of patients and patients. Outside, dozens of people were complaining about not being able to find a doctor who could see them immediately.
"I already came twice. No one supported my case, "says AlterPresse a woman who was with her sick child.
"There is a shortage of doctors. It does not tell us the truth. There is a secret that is not revealed, "she believes.
The local director of the Department of Public Health and Population (MSPP), Dr. Jean Reynold Rejoice, not to mention cases of hundreds of people, who are victims of any unknown fever.
Reached by telephone Friday, September 26, 2014, Dr. Rejoice made mention preferably 15 patients received daily at Ste Therese Hospital in Hinche.
"There are lots of patients who come to daily. But not everyone has all the same symptoms, "does he know.
Dr. Rejoice promised an inquiry into the situation.
"And if there is risk of epidemic, we will make the appropriate solution," he argues.
"For now, all those who want numbers, are referred to our office," says Dr. John Reynold Rejoice.
Moreover, cholera is back in Hinche.
Several cases of cholera were recenc?s during the last week of September 2014.
There are children, big people as well as old, lying on beds of cholera treatment center (ctc), observes AlterPresse.
Dr. Jean Daniel Laguerre reported, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, 20 cases of hospitalization.
More than twenty people, with symptoms of cholera, come daily to St. Therese Hospital in Hinche.
The rains, which abbattent the Department of the Central Plateau, and the abandonment of regular hygiene practices are the factors put forward to explain the rise of the disease Cholera in Hinche.
Meanwhile, the city of Hinche is no longer supplied with drinking water for two weeks.
Some people use the river water to meet the daily household needs. [ro kft rc apr 10/02/2014 2:00]
http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article17083