“A hospital that does not guarantee the basics for the diagnosis and monitoring of dengue is severely failing to its population,” the doctor denounced.
Miami, United States. – Matancer Miguel Alejandro Domínguez doctor He denounced on Wednesday on Facebook That the Cárdenas Territorial Hospital “Julio Miguel Aristegui Villamil” is not performing the minimum laboratory analysis to evaluate and monitor patients with suspicion or diagnosis of dengue.
“The one who knows me knows that I am not doing this [denunciar públicamente]but as a doctor, I cannot be silent at what I lived in the Territorial Hospital of Cárdenas, ”began the young doctor, who detected that he was” taking a dengue. “
He immediately explained that “the basic and essential complementary exams for the evaluation and monitoring of this disease are leukogram, hematocrit, platelets” and said they are not “optional” but “mandatory.”
“Well, in this hospital they are not complementing these complementary to patients with suspicion or diagnosis of dengue,” he denounced.
In that sense, he questioned the risks of omitting these studies – which allow to detect complications such as thrombocytopenia or hemoconcentration – and held the territorial hospital of Cárdenas and the staff to normalize the situation.
“It is a total lack of respect for patients and towards medical practice (…) All doctors who work there, accepting and normalizing this situation, become accomplices of this health disaster,” he said. “I do not speak as one more patient: I am a doctor, I know what I am saying, and I think they have told me that they could not make me leukogram, hematocrit or platelets. A hospital that does not guarantee the basics for the diagnosis and monitoring of dengue is seriously failing to its population,” he concluded.
In the last three weeks, the province of Matanzas has reported a rebound of febrile syndromes and arbovirosis in several municipalities. Even provincial and national media recently recognized the increase in cases and issued sanitary alerts in territories such as Cárdenas.
September 22, The official press “High incidence” of diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti In that Matancero municipality, with intensified focal and research actions.
In parallel, Independent reports They have described “a peak of febrile syndromes” in areas of the province, with crowded emergency rooms and complaints due to garbage accumulation, lack of fumigation and shortage of medications, conditions that facilitate the spread of the mosquito.
While local authorities They have pointed out The circulation of serotypes 3 and 4 of dengue in Matanzas and the presence of Chikungunya – with an emphasis on not reporting serious cases at that time -, media and citizens alert by the expansion of febrile paintings to other territories and for the material limitations of the health system.
Nationally and regionally, the context is adverse. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) He has warned About an especially intense arbovirosis season in 2024–2025 in the Americas and has published specific alerts by Chikungunya and Oroopouche.
At the end of August, Cuban health officials confirmed Patients in intensive dengue therapy in the country
On the other hand, countries such as the United States and Canada have issued warnings to their citizens who plan to travel to the island due to the increase in diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, including Dengue, Chikungunya and Oroopouche.
