jueves, 15 de octubre de 2009

Experts insist in hygienic measures before virus A (H1N1)

By:Barbara Vasallo Vasallo

Specialists in hygiene and epidemiology, intensivists and clinical, in this city, insisted in the importance of reinforcing sanitary measures, to prevent and to face the virus of the Influenza A (H1N1).

When appearing in a program of the local televisore TV Yumurí, Amancio Martínez, director in functions of the Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology in the territory, emphasized in the importance that the population is aware of the risk, and she added that as much to the pregnant ones as to the smallest children are given pursuit and guide preventive measures.

The main medication is the prevention, to assist the orientations of specialists and to multiply the measures of control of hygiene in each housing, work center and community, argued Martínez .

Emilio Abreu, vicedirector of medical attendance in the provincial direction of Public Health, explained that before any symptom one should go to the doctor, to avoid the late attendance and it ratified the readiness of human resources and materials to face the epidemic.

Idelkis Olvera, 23 years old, with 29 weeks of pregnancy, thanked the personnel of intensive therapy of the hospital Faustino Pérez, of Matanzas, to save her life, after to be contagious and to get complicated with germs opportunists, because didn't assist what considered on time “a simple cold.”

The problem is solved fundamentally with the prevention, underlined Alfredo Suárez, experienced clinical and intensivist with 30 years of work in his specialty.

Matanzas maintains permanent epidemic surveillance in the airport, port and marine, and in each of the tourist facilities of Varadero and Ciénaga de Zapata.

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