Camagüey prioritizes attention to groups of risk for TO (H1N1)

By: Adolfo Silva Silva

More than two thousand 500 people of the biggest groups of risk for the virus TO (H1N1) have been entered in units of health of the county of Camagüey, because of suspicions of suffering the illness.

None died for the pandemic in those segments, concerning to the pregnant , puerpers and smaller than five years of age.

The doctor Gustavo Ferrer, boss of the Infantile Maternal Attention Program (PAMI) in the territory, underlined that the statistic covers from the first week of October up to the four of the present month.

In October the plan of measures was reinforced to counteract the affection, of growing presence in the orb, and as a consequence of a considered virus the main circulating stump in the world population and the most complicated in those until well-known hour of the flu.

The pandemic generated a serious challenge for the health and the survival in the 2009, stage in which Camagüey registered its lower appraises historical of infantile mortality, with four deceaseds smaller than one year for each thousand born alive.

The intern of pregnants and the puerpers (period from the childbirth until the return to the previous normal status to the gravity) are carried out in the Provincial Hospital of Maternity, and of the children in the pediatric Eduardo Agramonte Piña and in centers in Nuevitas, Florida, Guáimaro and Santa Cruz del Sur.

A system of remissions assures the total covering in a device of attention that also includes the revenues of infants in their homes in its diverse modalities - for not needing hospital reclusion -, and with visits doctors daily.