The authorities of Health Public announced this Wednesday that the two patients affected by monkeypoxwho were receiving treatment at the Ramón de Lara Military Hospital, were discharged last Tuesday.
The director of that health center, José Richardson, assured that both patients, a 51-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man, “are fully recovered.”
According to the doctor, “the two cases completely remitted their injuries and remained hospitalized, completing their cycle of isolation.”
The treating infectologist, Joel Ureña, specified that the onset of the disease was on July 1 and 5, therefore, “the established three weeks of isolation have already passed.”
“During the last 96 hours, the patients did not present active lesions and the lesions that were in the scab phase, remitted”, explained the doctor.
“During the last 96 hours, the patients had no active (smallpox) lesions”infectious disease doctor
As the patients did not present any situation that warranted extending the observation period, “yesterday they were discharged to their home, with a continuous clinical evaluation in the hospital’s infectology consultations, for timely follow-up and possible reinstatement. to their work activities”, explained Ureña.
Also, the Deputy Minister of Health Collective, Eladio Pérez, stressed that “we have had some suspicious cases, of which, five of them met the inclusion criteria and all have come out negative.”
This situation led him to state: “We have no active cases of monkeypox in the Dominican Republic.”
Vaccines for polio
The director of the Expanded Immunization Program (EPI), Aida Lucía Vargas, reported that some 82,508 children under one year of age were immunized against polio in the first six months of this year 2022, 88.5% of the established goal.
With this figure, the Dominican Republic resumes the vaccination rate established before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The country was declared polio-free in 1985.
