The arterial hypertensionischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), overweight and obesity related to excessive consumption of fats and carbohydrates generated more than 70% of the total 66,918 deaths in 2022.
As reported by the Ministry of Public healththese values exceed deaths from COVID-19, dengue, malaria and other infectious diseases.
In a report that balances the management of the various diseases in 2022, he highlighted the flattening of the curve of cases of COVID-19achieving a drastic reduction in the percentages of the number of daily patients, hospitalization and deaths, exhibiting indicators of the lowest in the world where a lethality of 0.67% stands out.
With respect to denguesays that its incidence was much lower than in previous epidemic years, registering for December 2022, about 8,340 cases with 42 deathswhich yields a lethality of around 0.50, that is, one (1) death for every 200 cases.
Refering to malariahighlights the 316 cases confirmed, of which 217 (68.6%) are confirmed in the province near the border with Haiti, San Juan de la Maguana and that no deaths have been reported from this disease, refers to a press release from Public health.
About him anger refers to the record of 12 cases distributed geographically in: La Altagracia: 1; Montecristi: 1 ; and in the neighborhoods of Santo Domingo: 10.
“Public health deployed the control of cases and cohabitants, establishing the epidemiological fence with more than 2,800 homes visited, active search for cases and supply of Doxycycline treatments to the entire public sector for cases that merit its application”, he argued.
In 2022, only 257 confirmed patients of leptospirosis, according to the report.
According to the monkeypox, reports that some were investigated 468 suspected caseshowever only 36 cases were positive (7%), no deaths and more than four weeks without a report of suspected cases.
in matter mother-childsaid that maternal mortality decreased significantly, with 65 deaths per 100,000 live births, a step forward given that, according to the Epidemiological Surveillance System, in previous years there were mortality levels above 100 or more female deaths per 100,000 live births. For his part, neonatal mortality rate is 15.9 per 1000 live births.
Regarding the prevalence of infection by HIV, It stands out that in the general population it is 0.9%; in men who have sex with men (MSM) 7%, in transgender people (TRANS): 27.7%; in sex workers (TRSX): 3.3%, in immigrants of Haitian nationality: (IH) 5% and in Persons Deprived of Liberty (PPL): 4.8%.
Worldwide in 2022 they died 650,000 people for HIV-related causes and contracted the virus 1.5 million.
