Given the increase in cases of dengue and chikungunya in Matanzas, a group of Health professionals will be sent to the province to support epidemiological control effortsreported journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso.
The decision responds to the scenario facing the territory. Several municipalities register a sustained increase in patients due to the proliferation of the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
The province lacks a sufficient number of Vector workers and the necessary fumigation equipment—the so-called “bazookas”—to cover all health areas.
According to the newspaper Giron, Of the 1,341 required workers, only 777 are active, which has forced part of the teams to leave without acting. due to lack of personnel.
According to journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso, a group of health professionals will arrive at #Matanzas to support in confronting the complicated epidemiological situation in the province.
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Proliferation of dengue in Matanzas
The municipality of Cárdenas began this week an intensive action plan that includes complete risk mapping and extra-domiciliary fumigation with higher-powered equipment, in an attempt to contain the outbreak before the epidemic peak expected in mid-October.
Local authorities confirmed that dengue circulates in the 12 municipalities of the province and chikungunya has spread to the entire territory.
Although no deaths have been reported, pediatric admissions have increased, especially among children under one year old with fever, reported the provincial director of Health, Yamira López García.
Cuba faces a worrying increase in cases of dengue, chikunguya and oropouche
Dr. Andrés Lamas Acevedo warned that cases maintain an upward trend—except in the municipality of Perico—and highlighted the “high rate of chikungunya attack,” attributed to low immunity in the adult population.
Specialists insist on the need to reinforce house-to-house investigations to detect patients in time and determine if they require home or hospital admission.
The health emergency is developing in a context of national economic crisis, marked by prolonged blackouts, shortages of water, food and medicine, uncontrolled increase in garbage dumps, factors that aggravate the spread of vector-borne diseases.
Cárdenas on alert: virus outbreak and neighbors concerned about health and garbage
