Minsal rules out cases of childhood hepatitis of unknown origin after cases detected in Europe and the United States

The head of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health, christian garcia, ruled out that Chile registers cases of childhood hepatitis of unknown origin. This after the warning of the World Health Organization (WHO) on April 5, of being notified regarding the first cases of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children under 10 years of age in United Kingdom.

As the days progressed, dozens of cases were detected in more countries of Europe heyEven in the United States.

As a result of this, García pointed out that “we want to report on the measures that have been adopted in Chile in response to the communication from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the appearance of cases of hepatitis in children under 10 years of age in some European countries. “.

“In Chile there are no cases of hepatitis associated with this alert. Our country has a robust surveillance system that has been activated to monitor these cases throughout our healthcare network,” he added.

Along these lines, Christian García added that “if a case is detected, the population will be notified in a timely manner.”

“Our call is to go to official sources of information and to maintain protection and prevention measures for the viruses that circulate in our country with hand washing, use of masks and ventilation of closed places,” he closed.