The neighborhood la zurza of the National District, which in recent days presented some six cases of angertoday has been declared free of the disease by doctors and staff Public health installed in a camp near the banks of the Isabela river, despite the fact that a new alert registers four new infections near this sector and Capotillo.
Dr. Máximo Canela, from the Risk Management Department of the Ministry of Public healthassured that for the moment the team maintains an active house-to-house search, to provide information on the prevention of the disease to the citizens of the neighborhood.
“Patients are already stable in la zurzaWhat we have here is consultations for flu processes, headaches, fevers, dermatitis and things like that,” Canela said, while stating that there are no cases of diarrhea in the neighborhood.
In house-to-house operations in The Zurza and Capotillo, Public health carried out a random survey of 68 samples, taking tests in both symptomatic patients and others without symptoms. Of these, only four were positive. The authorities stated that in la zurza There is not anger.
Last week the interventions of the Ministry of Public health in the sector The Zurzawhere some 140 nurses coordinated a preventive operation in which they distributed supplies to the community that included chlorine, oral rehydration solutions, gloves and masks.
The Health authorities value the work of dredging the Isabela river, with an aquatic backhoe, by the Ministry of the Environment and the Dominican Navy.
They also highlight the work carried out by the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewerage Corporation (CAASD), which installed some 20 water tanks for drinking water, which are supplied daily.
Similarly, the National District City Council (ADN) works hard on the issue of garbage removal and the placement of containers and ducts so that solid waste is thrown to the correct place from the houses that are in the upper part of the neighborhood. .
Community leader Francisco Reyes reported that most of the ravines that flow into the Isabela have been cleaned so that the water can flow.
“What is needed is for the CAASD to speed up the connection of the sanitary sewer system to the pumping plant that is in this same sector,” Reyes said.
To date, 17 positive cases have been confirmed in the country anger: 13 local and four imported.
“Of these tests, we only have four positives. Two of them in completely asymptomatic patients and two that corresponded to patients admitted to the hospital (Goico).”
The Vice Minister of Collective Health, Eladio Pérez, recalled yesterday that more than 24,000 cases have already been reported in the neighboring nation of Haiti and more than 450 people have died.
“The more the epidemiological curve develops in the neighboring country, the more likely it could happen in ours,” he said.
