Nestor Jimenez and Emir Olivares
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, July 27, 2022, p. 13
Transmission of monkeypox, also known as monkeypox, is not going to behave
such as covid-19, since it is not universally or extensively spread, and occurs in small outbreaks in certain key populations
explained yesterday the Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell.
He also reported that covid-19 infections are beginning to show a decline, while the general director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, announced the start of the second national day of recruitment and hiring of doctors and specialists, in which there are 10,454 vacancies available. .
As part of the weekly health report within the morning press conference at the National Palace, López-Gatell indicated that, although it is the first time that monkeypox has been more widespread in the world, transmission occurs mostly by contact with the skin of people when they are in the active phase.
insisted that this is not a disease that is expected to spread widely
in addition to self-limited
because in 21 days it disappears and generally causes little damage, with the exception of people with severe immunosuppression.
He added that 60 cases are reported in Mexico, without any deaths from the disease, while in the world there are 17,000 infections, of which only five have ended in death.
Its symptoms are skin lesions, fever, pain and enlarged lymph nodes. In the country, he explained, a large part of the measures recommended by the World Health Organization we already had them in place: epidemiological surveillance and laboratory capacity. We have trained other countries in laboratory capabilities
.
Regarding the covid-19 epidemic, he explained that the cases began to drop during the recent week, for which the reduction of the fifth wave of infections is projected. He detailed that more than a quarter of children between the ages of five and 11 have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the general director of the IMSS pointed out that the 10,454 vacancies for doctors and specialists are directed to areas of difficult coverage in Insabi, IMSS, IMSS-Wellness, Issste, Pemex and highly specialized hospitals,
Veracruz, Michoacán, the state of Mexico, Chiapas, Tamaulipas, Oaxaca and Puebla accumulate just over half of the available places, he specified. Nearly 70 percent of the options are for specialties such as trauma, orthopedics, general surgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology.
