Re: Suspected deaths in Calama region
Source:
http://www.mercuriocalama.cl/prontus4_nots/site/artic/20090703/pags/20090703000704.html
Friday July 3, 2009
Investigating two human deaths from influenza
Copper at the Hospital are extremely serious in 4 patients with the virus confirmed.
A man and a woman, older than 50 years, would be the first two victims of fatal human influenza in Calama.
While the Ministry of Health is awaiting the results of examinations performed on these two people who died during the week at the Hospital of Calama, a result of severe respiratory disease and strongly suggest that the human influenza .
Cases
According to medical sources, the first case, a woman older than 50 years, which entered Saturday with severe respiratory hospital diagnosis Cisterna Carlos Calama. In the care complications on the same day and ceased to exist. Samples were taken immediately to determine the presence of the virus AH1N1 and its impact on the fate of the patient.
This woman had been derived from a particular clinic, the product of its deterioration.
The second is a senior citizen, which died on Wednesday in the same care. Apart from respiratory complications, other diseases and also introduced multi-organ failure, which hastened his death at the end.
Both cases must be reported by the Ministry of Health to educate the community if they are people infected with the virus or other respiratory diseases.
It was learned that samples are being analyzed at the Institute of Public Health in Santiago, and should arrive in the coming hours.
Five cases
Meanwhile, in the care of Codelco Norte precincts are in a state of extreme gravity and four patients with life-threatening, which are confirmed as infected with human influenza viruses. This was released by the hospital director, Dr. Miguel Cort?s.
It is a mining center worker and three women, which are connected to mechanical ventilator. There was also another official of the state was transferred to the Military Hospital of Antofagasta due to lack of breathing equipment. This is also in critical condition.
Notably, the first four patients have pre-existing disease. The worker has after-effects of a previous cancer and three patients suffered, individually, vasculitis, arthritis and heart disease and chronic lung disease, respectively.
There are also four patients, two workers and two dependents (no relation between them, like the extreme gravity) which are being monitored in the intermediate care unit in the same enclosure.
In total, all cases ranging between 50 and 60 years of age.
It is expected that cases may increase in the division, which is already adopting the procedure for a pandemic health emergency.
Projection
Projections regarding the number of people at this time may be infected or have been through the clinical picture of human influenza in the city, is estimated to be over a thousand. As background, only the hospital Carlos Cisterna have so far served 800 adults and 150 children with symptoms of the so-called swine flu. They are supplied on the basis of Tamiflu treatment and have developed favorably.
Copper at the Hospital caring for the same concept has reached 320 with a corresponding treatment.
Cases are expected to increase in the next two weeks and is called the community to remain calm, mainly because the recovery is quick and effective. With regard to cases of deaths, they had complications from other diseases.
