The report of Ministry of Public Health on suspected and confirmed cases of anger it doesn’t square with the reality found in hospitals when talking to patients and medical staff.
This ministry reported yesterday only four suspected cases of anger, three of whom had been discharged home. However, in the Felix Maria Goico Hospital, Free Daily found the relative of at least two patients with symptoms that motivated the doctors to order a test anger.
ivelisse rodriguez He was waiting yesterday under a tent at that medical center for the results of a test for his mother (68 years old) and his stepfather (69 years old) with diarrhea for several days. Both were admitted on January 3, the same day that her 32-year-old son was buried, who died after suffering similar symptoms since December 24 of last year.
Ivelisse believes that her mother may have been infected while caring for her sick son, having to deal with feces from diarrhea that did not stop for eight days.
They sent him home
The young man fell ill on Christmas Eve and was taken to the Moscoso Puello hospital. Ivelisse recounts that there they told him that they could not retain him because he had anger and they sent him home to medicate on his own on December 26. “It’s that he has angerwe cannot accept it ”, assures Ivelisse that they told her at that medical center.
Seeing him worse every day, the family took him to Salvador B. Gautier on the 30th, where he died two days later. His relative was not counted in the statistics of Public healthwhich in those days did not report any suspicious cases.
It has been seven days since the father began to feel the same symptoms and three since it began with the mother. Both were admitted to the Félix María Goico.
Given the delay in the test results of the anger in the National Laboratory, they decided to pay about 3,000 pesos for the two tests in a private laboratory.
Félix María Goico receives suspected cases of cholera in adults and Santo Socorro in childrenas confirmed by the director of Health area IV, jesus suardi.
Dr. Gina Estrella, director of Risk Management and Disaster Response, reported yesterday that the Ministry of Public Health is currently aware of only four suspected cases of cholera that are awaiting results. Three of them were sent home to continue their treatment there and the fourth is a homeless person who has not been identified. She noted that 70 cholera tests have been carried out, of which only 10 have been positive. The doctor indicated that in La Zurza and adjoining neighborhoods no new cases have been detected.
with symptoms
The emergency doctor from Moscoso Puello, Carmen Portes, reported that for four days she has had a patient with symptoms of anger. This does not appear in the report either. Public health.
That patient awaits the results from the National Laboratory. “The traditional stool test is done and due to the specific characteristics, the feces are sent to the National Laboratory,” said the specialist. The patient is given a treatment whose antibiotic therapy will change when there is laboratory confirmation.
Children
At the Santo Socorro hospital, intended to receive potential cases of anger in children, which is why infants with acute diarrheal diseases and dehydration usually arrive, a girl who arrived with diarrhea last Saturday from the La Zurza sector died. Public health reported yesterday that the tests carried out confirmed that it was not anger. Jesús Suardí stated that there are 10 confirmed, including eight foreigners.
