Re: Mexico - Governor Duarte confirmed outbreak of influenza A H1N1 in Juarez - declared statewide alert
Re: Mexico - Governor Duarte confirmed outbreak of influenza A H1N1 in Juarez - declared statewide alert
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Mayor suspends hearing
public flu outbreak
State put on alert for outbreaks of influenza
Vaccination campaign held today in FCPyS
Francisco Lujan / CORRAL BEATRIZ IGLESIAS / Editorial
2011-03-25
00:00:12
Mayor Hector Murguia Lardizabal ordered the suspension of the Public Hearing scheduled for tomorrow after seasonal influenza outbreak that seriously sickened officers of the Directorate General Municipal Transit (DGTM) which was officially reported one person dead.
At the same time instructed the director general of Health to issue a report to council members on the situation in dependence and in the city reaches of the health problem.
In the same way the mayor announced that will change the operating from the road which the staff will discontinue the practice they have when they ask motorists to blow them in the palm of your hand to smell and discard in this way if Guiding have consumed alcoholic beverages.
At the end of the regular meeting of City Council, yesterday, the Municipal Health Department implemented an operation to vaccinate the staff of the municipal office in the boardroom Jose Reyes Estrada, adjacent to the office of mayor.
On this measure only became known through the head of the agency, the physician Ariel Díaz de León, who gave instructions to coordinators and heads of agencies to notify all staff on the measure.
CITY COUNCIL DIRECTS THE MUNICIPAL HEALTH DIRECTOR
As a result of the regular meeting of City Council, held yesterday, the council unanimously instructed the Municipal Health CEO, Ariel Díaz de León, to immediately carry out the relevant details to determine the source and scope of the outbreak influenza in DGTM, for which he extended powers (in the form of Warrant) and the services of laboratories that perform medical tests and determine the sources of infection, also so that necessary actions are carried out with avoid a public health problem.
WHERE IS THE MUNICIPAL HEALTH COMMITTEE?
Yesterday at the end of the open meeting of council, the mayor gave the council a space to appear the director general of health in order to give an explanation on the status of the health problem in the DGTM and risks to spread to the city.
Norte de Ciudad Juárez mayor consulted the Labour College of the Committee has not met despite the spread of agents Transit was released two days earlier.
The mayor confirmed that he was not aware if they had called a meeting but he was always well aware of the details of the agreements reached at the meetings.
It was learned that the coordinator of the Health Commission of the City Council, Josefina Moreno Sanchez insisted during the morning, the doctor Díaz de León, on the expected announcement of the Committee, but it is unknown if he got a response.
PUBLIC HEARING POSTPONEMENT? TETO?
Mayor Murguia announced that postponed the public hearing as a precautionary measure to avoid crowds and prevent any infection.
He urged citizens to use extreme caution with regard to personal hygiene.
"We wash our hands, avoid sneezing into the air, is very important we prevent seasonal diseases, which are presented every year," he said.
He called on the community to maintain the hygiene and be vaccinated against the H1N1 virus.
On atypical pneumonia that appeared in a traffic policeman who died of fulminant pneumonia, said that so far it is unknown whether this is because the virus identified as H1N1.
He said his government is in constant communication with the State Government and the Health District II, as well as the federal government.
As for the elements of DGTM [atypical pneumonia] patients, said that both have evolved substantially and are under medical observation.
He said that until yesterday noon has not submitted any other similar case in the DGTM.
Municipality recommended but forget the soap
Despite the appeal of the municipal administration and the exhortations of health authorities for people to attend minimum preventive measures in response to influenza infection detected in the Municipal Traffic Department (DGTM), the baths of the Presidencia Municipal building which are used by hundreds of people every day do not have basic hygiene supplies and cleaning as hand soap, toilet paper or towels.
Yesterday, during the public session of City Council Mayor Hector Murguia called attention to a reporter who sneezed without covering your mouth and minutes later issued a message for people to exercise caution with clean hands especially after going to the bathroom.
Knowing the situation in the bathrooms of City Hall even months before he received the government on 10 October 2010, the mayor during the development of the press conference instructed the senior officer Rodolfo Martinez, to resolved immediately the demand for cleaning supplies in the bathrooms of the Administrative Unit Benito Juárez, home of the Mayor of Ciudad Juárez.
Martinez received the instructions of the mayor and promised to provide a response to the representatives of the media who made the observation and explained that while more than a privilege it was a public health issue for the hundreds of visitors daily come to the presidency for a number of procedures and interests.
A few hours after the governor of Chihuahua, Cesar Duarte, announced that it had a health problem in the state with atypical influenza outbreaks in Ciudad Juarez and other cities, the mayor acknowledged that it was good that there were no inputs cleaning referrals while in the act called the senior official who asked? get to work? responsible for all material purchases in the city bureaucracy.
During the public meeting of council the mayor even said that it was healthy as part of the alert at least in the presidency people will not shake hands or kiss, while he insisted on the importance of cleaning hands .
"We are very bad but we will solve? The toilet paper is a priority," the mayor said the senior officer who had been called by the mayor to offer a public explanation on the matter.
He admitted it was wrong in the spaces between the government and citizens in a state of health alert as we live, do not guarantee the basic conditions of prevention related to the inputs required for cleaning.
Managers dismiss municipal hospital stringent measures
Although municipal health services have not ruled out cases of people infected with influenza A virus H1N1 that caused death and a police officer and keep another in intensive care, health fences in the hospital City have not been as intense.
Francisco Loera, coordinator of the Municipal Hospital of Medical Services, reported that so far the patients were treated for symptoms of pneumonia while the other officers who presented with similar symptoms were reviewed only by a common cold, which is why they sent back to your home.
"We had patients with the information that was driving around (the media) thought it was something more serious than a flu-like symptoms and went to review some who believe that they had a serious problem we had in the airways observation few hours while they did the studies, but gave them [discharged], "he said.
The other patients have is fine and the other two say that we were returned because there was nothing to justify that they were infected, he said.
During a tour conducted by municipal hospital could be seen cleaning staff, nurses and some doctors wearing the masks and gloves, but the city official said there have intensified security measures to prevent others from getting sick.
"We continue with the normal toilets, but we have not yet begun to clean more thoroughly because they know the results of studies that were made immediately to the agents," he said.
He added, "as it was a pneumonic problem, we were the measures we manage the use of masks when going to the patient, the technique called isolated, the family went to see him put on his mask and a gown especially but out there do not handle anything else because the medical evidence had not thrown us infection with H1N1. "
Meanwhile, this situation, in the opinion of the same family of the patient population, poses a risk to other patients who are hospitalized, and their families who come to care or access.
"Right now in fact the hospital that the patient receives regular normal way, we have no restrictions and are taking the normal measures of daily management of a hospital," he said.
During the morning [of the 24th - alert] the city official said he did not rule out the possibility that traffic officers were infected by the H1N1 virus, more "we are managing patients according to the results of studies that have been made and these show a problem and pneumonic therefore pneumonia is not related to an outbreak of this virus. "
He clarified that the samples were taken which were sent directly to Mexico City for examination.
"We already sent the samples and will be the health jurisdiction who can give more information because we ran all the tests and it is they who should determine what happens, what it does rule out is that influenza is seasonal," he said.
For its part, the holder of the Health District II, Hector Puertas Corners, issued recommendations to prevent further spread, urging the community to go to the areas of health if they experience symptoms of influenza A H1N1.
"We
still have a patient who is in intensive care and is reported as very serious but he is alive and we hope to evolve successfully, but for now, and while we study the analysis because the population we are recommending that if you have any symptoms of flu symptoms such as runny nose, sore throat, hacking cough or malaise, who comes to the health units to be assessed by a doctor, "he urged.
Among the recommendations, the health official stated that all hospitals in the city should be alert to report any similar case, in order to prevent the virus spreading to more people.
For now, the streets can be seen at various road agents infringements their masks, as some people say that it shows them to be afraid of being infected.
