According to the newspaper Guerrillaan outbreak of water transmission due to water contamination was declared in the Hermanos Cruz Popular Council, Pinar del Río.
Dr. Andrés Villar Bahamonde, director of the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, said that this town, where some 23,000 people live, receives water through a 36-inch pipe. Its supply source is in a place known as the Pozos de Troncoso, which in recent days had problems with the amounts of chlorine that reached the networks. In addition, he explained that the recent rains caused the contamination of different networks and cisterns.
According to the text, the outbreak was declared from the increase in cases of vomiting, diarrhea and to a lesser extent fever, reported in the family doctor’s offices, in the polyclinic of this health area and in the pediatric hospital.
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However, he assures, all the tests carried out have been negative for cholera. The doctor also said that the water had been “analyzed in different samples from the 36-inch driver that arrives at the distribution area of the doctors, the Vocational, the Pedagogical, and others, and in the first analysis of the microbiology laboratory it is observed that they are positive for enterobacteria, presumably of the type Escherichia coli«.
The local health authorities have directed the population to boil the water, let it rest and then administer three to four drops of sodium hypochlorite at one percent per liter. They also advised to clean the cisterns contaminated with sewage water well so that they can receive it properly chlorinated.
