MIAMI, United States. – Cubans from several provinces infected with dengue lament the deplorable sanitary conditions in the country, which have allowed the proliferation of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which transmits the disease.
Several interviewed by CubaNet They also assured that they have been instructed to pass the disease at home because the hospitals are collapsed and do not have the means to care for patients.
Last September, the Cuban authorities warned that dengue was still “the most complex hygienic-sanitary situation” in the country. On that date, the island’s Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, reported that there was transmission of the virus that causes dengue in the 15 provinces of the country, as well as in the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud.
“Infestation and disease rates continue to warn that institutional, family and business responsibility in terms of reducing mosquito outbreaks Aedes aegypti it is key in the control of dengue, starting with the quality of the work of those who work in the anti-vector campaign”, said Porta.
In early September, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported that it was forecast an increase in dengue cases for October and November.
According to Clarilda Peña García, deputy minister of the MINSAP, the country is going through “a difficult moment.” “Let’s go to the [periodo] complex of the disease, since the cycle shows its greatest peaks from the end of October and the beginning of November, because there is a wave of the vector and of the patients with dengue”, he said.
In July of this year, the Minister of Public Health also reported that the Island was going through a “complex” epidemiological scenario. In addition, he specified that the record of reproduction points of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito of the last 15 years had been broken.
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