March 6, 2023, 4:30 PM
March 6, 2023, 4:30 PM
Carlos Hurtado, manager of the Sedes Epidemiology Unit, reported that Santa Cruz is far from having dengue under control. Unlike the Ministry of Health, where they assure that positive cases have decreased in recent days.
“This is because the centers have implemented rapid tests for the detection of the disease, whose result the Ministry does not contemplate in the daily report of casesHurtado explained.
The epidemiologist confirmed that for the second consecutive week a lower number of cases is registered than the previous one. “That is, it is a slowdown“, indicated the expert, in time to clarify that this is due to two key factors. “The first occurs because hard work is being done to contain the disease. But the secondit is because the health centers have begun to carry out authorized rapid dengue tests, and the Ministry still does not allow the report of these tests, so it does not enter the number of daily cases,” Hurtado remarked.
According to Hurtado, Santa Cruz is still far from the control of the epidemic, there is still oversaturation of health services and mortality continues to be high. “In addition, the population continues to fail to fulfill its role of co-responsibility, with the elimination of mosquito breeding sites.“said the epidemiologist.
According to the Headquarters report, minors are the most beaten due to the dengue epidemic in Santa Cruz, since 57% of the affected patients are people between the ages of six and 19. Likewise, of the 30 confirmed deaths from the disease, 56% were under 12 years of age.
