Santo Domingo.- In the emergency of the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital This Friday a high flow of children with symptoms of fever, nasal congestion, respiratory complications, vomiting and diarrhea, while mothers waited in the room to be attended to.
Santa Lara said that she had to travel for four hours to the capital to be able to care for her husband’s daughter, a baby of only seven months who was diagnosed with pneumonia, after not finding a bed available in two hospitals in Bani, Peravia province.
He explained that they had to move because the health centers in that community were overcrowded with patients with flu symptoms. “We brought her because the current flu is ending. She has pneumonia. In Baní there was no bed in any hospital and we had to come here,” Lara said.
During a correction by the El Dia newspaper In other pediatric centers, such as the Doctor José Manuel Rodríguez Jiménez Children’s Hospital, formerly Santo Socorro, the flow of children with the flu virus could be observed in the emergency room.
Norca Bron, who was also in the Robert Reid Cabral He stated that his two-month-old grandson remained in the emergency room with seizures and breathing difficulties.
“I gave him milk and he turned purple. They washed him and took out a lot of green discharge. He’s still in the emergency room, he’s still convulsing and now they’re doing an electro,” Bron said.
Carolina Digna Pérez, another mother who attended the center because her 6-year-old son has been vomiting, diarrhea and fever since Thursday, said: “My son has diarrhea and vomiting since yesterday, fever. There are many children here with those same symptoms,” said Pérez.
The hospital continues to receive patients throughout the day, while health personnel work to respond to the increasing demand for these symptoms.
More than a thousand respiratory infections registered in the month of October
The past On October 16, four thousand 359 were detected suspected cases of acute respiratory infection, while 263 deaths because of it.
Likewise, so far in the month of November, the Epidemiology department of the Francisco Moscoso Puello hospital has rrecorded 32 cases positive for influenza, coming from Greater Santo Domingo and who have been managed on an outpatient basis.
