The last week in the Matancero Municipality of Colón, the health alert was lit: 435 non -specific febrile syndromes were confirmed, 23 more than the previous week.
The increase led the health authorities and the local government to display an intensive environment of environmental sanitation and epidemiological surveillancesomething that had not been carried out until this increase in cases and what was the cause of complaints by the population.
The numbers worry: Of the 239 hospital income, almost half are pediatric patientssaid the newspaper Girón.
Five people remain with alarm signs at the Doctor Mario Muñoz Monroy hospital, where there are 40 beds occupied by related cases, said Dr. René Granado López, director of the Municipal Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology.
Urgent actions underway
He popular discontent focuses on the little hygienization of the streets, where improvised garbage dumps proliferate Given the lack of waste collection by the authorities, an image that is repeated not only in Matanzas, but throughout the country.
Among the actions that have been carried out in Columbus, according to the newspaper GirónThere are the Pesquisa house by house.
Since Wednesday, medical students and health technologies are added to family doctors and nurses in the search for cases.
On the other hand, Several brigades work on waste collection and microverteer elimination in critical areas as the popular advice (134 cases), west (103) and South (101), in addition to peripheral neighborhoods such as disappointment, Río Piedras and San José de los Ramos.
Likewise, several workers in the sports and agricultural sector have joined fumigation work, with priority for hospitals, nursing homes, educational centers and maternal home.
The authorities insist on the need for autofocal in homes and to extreme care in water storage, a risky practice in the face of the shortage and proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
An extended problem in Matanzas
The situation in Columbus is not isolated. In Cárdenasanother Matancero municipality, the neighbors have reported high fever for weeks, intense articulations and general discomfort.
The specialists confirm the circulation of Chikungunya and Dengue, while the COVID-19 continues to present.
Although they have not registered dead or serious cases, the deficit of medicines especially worries for those who suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension or asthma.
Cárdenas on alert: virosis outbreak and neighbors worried about health and garbage
