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Nicaragua: a year of efforts in health
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
December 29, 2009, 06:51 Managua, Dec. 29 (PL) For Nicaraguans, 2009 ends with tangible results in public health, gratuity which proclaimed President Daniel Ortega has just assumed power in 2007 despite opposition campaign to devalue the progress.
Intensive vaccination campaigns and to fight dengue abatizaci?n and an extensive campaign to address the human influenza virus A (H1N1) tested the local health system.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) with popular support prevented dozens of people fell for the purposes of global flu pandemic declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). Just six died of the deadly disease, the lowest in the entire Central American region.
No less important was the fight against dengue fever and hemorrhagic disease which brought together in solidarity to all Nicaraguans. Civil, military, police and people in general, joined forces in intense days to eliminate mosquito breeding sites and abatizar, especially in Managua.
Also as part of government effort enroll other actions to preserve the health of the population.
The second graduation of doctors (44) formed in the Latin American Medical School in Cuba, reiterated the concern of the authorities to have professionals in the industry.
In a ceremony headed by President Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan boys reiterated their decision to serve in the remotest parts of the country, where today they acquire experience and is twinned with the members of the Cuban medical brigade that leads to remote areas of health geography local.
Member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of our America (ALBA), Nicaragua is also a recipient of a number of projects in the health field that drives the group.
Thus, the Mission Miracle leaves its imprint on the country and many people who had never seen the light, now discover the marvels and misadventures of the world.
More than 60 thousand Cuban personnel diagnosed and treated in three eye clinics is a huge amount in a country where such treatments are not available to the poorest, to those who join thousands of others who were treated in Venezuela.
In October another initiative of ALBA arrived in the country with the white coats of the operation "All to Voice". Sixty-six Cuban specialists here leading a study on the causes of disability.
According to Alma Nubia Baltodano, the offices of the Citizen Power of People with Disabilities, more than 10 percent of Nicaraguans have a disability and most unknown causes.
The population of the departments of Masaya, Matagalpa, Chinandega and Managua shortly, were participants of solidarity and humanism of this task with a segment of society that many had never seen a doctor.
Other government efforts also materialized with the opening of more hospitals and the introduction of advanced technologies for benefit of all Nicaraguans as the center of CT and MRI, fitted to the Lenin Fonseca Hospital in Havana.
Despite the campaigns of their opponents, the Ortega government made more humane and healthy existence of citizens in the year that marked the 30th anniversary Sandinista Popular Revolution of 1979.
lac / lb
Nicaragua: a year of efforts in health
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
December 29, 2009, 06:51 Managua, Dec. 29 (PL) For Nicaraguans, 2009 ends with tangible results in public health, gratuity which proclaimed President Daniel Ortega has just assumed power in 2007 despite opposition campaign to devalue the progress.
Intensive vaccination campaigns and to fight dengue abatizaci?n and an extensive campaign to address the human influenza virus A (H1N1) tested the local health system.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) with popular support prevented dozens of people fell for the purposes of global flu pandemic declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). Just six died of the deadly disease, the lowest in the entire Central American region.
No less important was the fight against dengue fever and hemorrhagic disease which brought together in solidarity to all Nicaraguans. Civil, military, police and people in general, joined forces in intense days to eliminate mosquito breeding sites and abatizar, especially in Managua.
Also as part of government effort enroll other actions to preserve the health of the population.
The second graduation of doctors (44) formed in the Latin American Medical School in Cuba, reiterated the concern of the authorities to have professionals in the industry.
In a ceremony headed by President Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan boys reiterated their decision to serve in the remotest parts of the country, where today they acquire experience and is twinned with the members of the Cuban medical brigade that leads to remote areas of health geography local.
Member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of our America (ALBA), Nicaragua is also a recipient of a number of projects in the health field that drives the group.
Thus, the Mission Miracle leaves its imprint on the country and many people who had never seen the light, now discover the marvels and misadventures of the world.
More than 60 thousand Cuban personnel diagnosed and treated in three eye clinics is a huge amount in a country where such treatments are not available to the poorest, to those who join thousands of others who were treated in Venezuela.
In October another initiative of ALBA arrived in the country with the white coats of the operation "All to Voice". Sixty-six Cuban specialists here leading a study on the causes of disability.
According to Alma Nubia Baltodano, the offices of the Citizen Power of People with Disabilities, more than 10 percent of Nicaraguans have a disability and most unknown causes.
The population of the departments of Masaya, Matagalpa, Chinandega and Managua shortly, were participants of solidarity and humanism of this task with a segment of society that many had never seen a doctor.
Other government efforts also materialized with the opening of more hospitals and the introduction of advanced technologies for benefit of all Nicaraguans as the center of CT and MRI, fitted to the Lenin Fonseca Hospital in Havana.
Despite the campaigns of their opponents, the Ortega government made more humane and healthy existence of citizens in the year that marked the 30th anniversary Sandinista Popular Revolution of 1979.
lac / lb