Given the spread of cholera infections, the Ministry of Public Health today launched a national campaign to prevent outbreaks of the disease in vulnerable areas.
The measure began with the delivery of kits containing chlorine, soap and other disinfectants; as well as guidelines on personal hygiene and proper handling of food, at the bus stop at kilometer nine of the Duarte Highway.
Dozens of brigades of the Ministry of Public Health and it was well valued by people who traveled to different parts of the country.
While in the Villa Liberación sector of the Santo Domingo Este municipality, where five people have died with symptoms of the disease, the town hall of that town is carrying out a cleaning day.
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Meanwhile, health personnel travel house to house in that neighborhood in search of detecting new patients to provide them with timely assistance and avoid deaths from the bacteria.
In addition, they are in charge of guiding their residents on the importance of accepting the preventive measures ordered by the Ministry of Public Health, in order to “stop” the advance of cholera in that community. They are also working to identify possible sources that make more infections possible.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Public Health notified the confirmation of six new cases of cholera in Villa Liberación and the Solares de El Almirante, in Santo Domingo Este.
The information was offered through the Vice Ministry of Collective Health and its General Directorate of Epidemiology (DIGEPI) and explained that the cases correspond to two Dominicans, a 56-year-old male and a 37-year-old female, residing in the aforementioned sectors of Santo Domingo East. .
While the remaining four infections are imported and correspond to patients of Haitian nationality, two males aged 47 and 31 and two females aged 72 and 9.
The patients were admitted between January 18 and 20, after presenting whitish watery diarrhea accompanied by vomiting.
He indicated that when they were treated at the health center they were hydrated and stabilized, proceeding immediately to take the stool samples, which were positive for cholera yesterday.
The medical report certifies that the patients have not had bowel movements for more than 24 hours, remaining stable and in good spirits; They remain hospitalized for observation purposes, with possible discharge in the next few hours.
Similarly, the Directorates of Health Areas I and VI, together with the Vice Ministry of Collective Health, DIGEPI and the Risk Management Directorate of the Ministry of Health, maintain the epidemiological fence with close relatives and permanent intervention in the areas to detect, prevent and investigate any suspected case of the disease, in addition to the installation of a mobile medical office to treat any emergency.
According to the epidemiological report so far there are no relatives of patients with suspicious symptoms of the disease. Public Health ratifies that the intervention is maintained in the La Zurza sector, where no new cases have been reported for more than two weeks, and maintains attention to Haitian nationals who return to the country from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, given the possibility that they could enter infected with the disease.
“The exhortation to the population to take care of themselves continues,” the statement said.
cholera infections
With the detection of 6 new cases of cholera, there are 31 infections confirmed by the Ministry of Public Health.
The entity assured that given the increase in infected, this week the arrival of more than 85 thousand doses of the vaccine is expected to counteract the bacteria.
