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Tuberculosis on the rise
The emergence of 6,552 new cases of tuberculosis in a year. Figures of the epidemiological bulletins and memory and contradictory account of the Ministry. Moreover, care programs go up and down by reducing the resource allocation
Keilyn Itriago MARRUFO
The emergence of 6,552 new cases of tuberculosis in a year, according to the report and account of the Ministry of Health in 2011, but be sure to place Venezuela in a position intermediate prevalence, it is striking about a possible spike in the statistics.
This figure is for the former Minister of Health and internist, Jose Felix Oletta, one of the highest in the last ten years.
Oletta is still stunned not only by the rise, but by the contradiction between official figures and epidemiological bulletins offered by the firm in the document submitted to the National Assembly as evidence misinformation high for professionals. He explains that the last epidemiological bulletin reported last year 3,408 new cases and no more than 6 000 as detailed in the report of ministerial management.
"If this is true, is troubling because the numbers of disease had remained between 24 and 23 cases per 100 000 inhabitants, so that more than 6 000 cases for a population of 28 million inhabitants is very high." In 2010 the number of cases was 3,238 cases and in the last decade had been highest averages between 4,500 and 5 000 cases.
When there are increases in cases of tuberculosis, says Oletta, study what is happening to the populations most vulnerable to the disease. "In the country the leading cause of disease is malnutrition, because tuberculosis continues to hunger as his shadow, and there are three additional risk groups where malnutrition may also be present: the indigenous ethnic groups, most notably the Warao population is in the Orinoco, the people who are in detention in prisons and HIV patients with AIDS, "he adds.
For the professor of the department of immunology and thoracic surgery at the Central University of Venezuela, Jose Silva, the TB program in Venezuela that had been one of the best in Latin America, has suffered serious problems in recent years, including withdrawal. This, despite the fact that the Ministry ensure 133,473,388 bolivars have invested in this area.
Silva says that, for example, the jeeps that were to find the patients who were not taking treatment, and no parts or no money or to bring them gasoline. And he says, the treatment of this disease imperative-mind must be met for six months.
"The worst part of leaving is not only that the patient will subsequently worsen but also can make bacteria resistant to all treatments. And the second-line drugs are more expensive, less effective and more durable," says immunologist .
A Oletta also noteworthy that if the ministry says it has identified more than 6 000 new cases have been treated just say isoniazid to 3,254 patients with latent tuberculosis infection.
Spanish-English translation
Tuberculosis on the rise
The emergence of 6,552 new cases of tuberculosis in a year. Figures of the epidemiological bulletins and memory and contradictory account of the Ministry. Moreover, care programs go up and down by reducing the resource allocation
Keilyn Itriago MARRUFO
The emergence of 6,552 new cases of tuberculosis in a year, according to the report and account of the Ministry of Health in 2011, but be sure to place Venezuela in a position intermediate prevalence, it is striking about a possible spike in the statistics.
This figure is for the former Minister of Health and internist, Jose Felix Oletta, one of the highest in the last ten years.
Oletta is still stunned not only by the rise, but by the contradiction between official figures and epidemiological bulletins offered by the firm in the document submitted to the National Assembly as evidence misinformation high for professionals. He explains that the last epidemiological bulletin reported last year 3,408 new cases and no more than 6 000 as detailed in the report of ministerial management.
"If this is true, is troubling because the numbers of disease had remained between 24 and 23 cases per 100 000 inhabitants, so that more than 6 000 cases for a population of 28 million inhabitants is very high." In 2010 the number of cases was 3,238 cases and in the last decade had been highest averages between 4,500 and 5 000 cases.
When there are increases in cases of tuberculosis, says Oletta, study what is happening to the populations most vulnerable to the disease. "In the country the leading cause of disease is malnutrition, because tuberculosis continues to hunger as his shadow, and there are three additional risk groups where malnutrition may also be present: the indigenous ethnic groups, most notably the Warao population is in the Orinoco, the people who are in detention in prisons and HIV patients with AIDS, "he adds.
For the professor of the department of immunology and thoracic surgery at the Central University of Venezuela, Jose Silva, the TB program in Venezuela that had been one of the best in Latin America, has suffered serious problems in recent years, including withdrawal. This, despite the fact that the Ministry ensure 133,473,388 bolivars have invested in this area.
Silva says that, for example, the jeeps that were to find the patients who were not taking treatment, and no parts or no money or to bring them gasoline. And he says, the treatment of this disease imperative-mind must be met for six months.
"The worst part of leaving is not only that the patient will subsequently worsen but also can make bacteria resistant to all treatments. And the second-line drugs are more expensive, less effective and more durable," says immunologist .
A Oletta also noteworthy that if the ministry says it has identified more than 6 000 new cases have been treated just say isoniazid to 3,254 patients with latent tuberculosis infection.