Health authorities of the western Cuban province of Sagebrush denied the existence of cases of anger and monkeypox in hospitals in the territory, according to official media reports.
Audios recently circulated through WhatsApp about alleged cases of monkey pox at the Iván Portuondo hospital, in the municipality of San Antonio de los Baños, according to a note from the local newspaper The Artemiseño.
However, Odalis Valdés, director of that hospital, clarified that there is no case of the disease, nor are any suspected patients reported at the center, the information points out, replicated by other media outlets on the island.
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False audios about alleged cases of monkeypox in the Iván Portuondo hospital, located in San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa province, were recently circulated on the WhatsApp social network, which was denied by the health authorities. https://t.co/LSeQWcgHT9— Granma Newspaper (@Granma_Digital) October 14, 2022
The director explained that the health institution is carrying out prevention work not only for dengue or COVID-19. “Promotional actions are being carried out by the rooms, which may have led to a misunderstanding of some companion or patient with the use of the mask or the washing of hands, that is, hygienic-epidemiological measures,” he detailed.
This, however, does not mean that there are cases of monkeypox in the hospital, Valdés assured. “We don’t even have suspected cases. We do not have that incidence, we are simply taking measures to prevent all diseases that can be contagious,” he added.
In turn, Osmany Pérez, director of Public health in the Artemiseño municipality of Güira de Melena, he also denied comments about the existence of cases of monkeypox and fulminant cholera in that territory, the information specifies.
Regarding monkeypox, he noted that in Güira de Melena there are 30 contacts of a positive case of this disease detected in the neighboring province of Havana, although he specified that “all are asymptomatic, isolated at home and evaluated in a periodically by the health professionals of the territory”,
“One of the 30 is direct contact, and the established protocols are already applied, but with a similar state of health to the rest,” Pérez pointed out, according to The Artemiseñowhile also clarifying that there are no reported cases or suspects of fulminant cholera in the municipality.
The Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) of Cuba recently confirmed that the number of people infected in the country with the monkeypox virus had risen to eight, most of them detected in Havana.
Cuba already registers eight cases of monkeypox, according to official media
The data was revealed this week during the usual meeting between the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and health experts who address, among other issues, the monitoring of dengue and COVID-19. Until then, only four cases had been reported on the island.
The most recent of these corresponded to a 26-year-old health worker from the province of Cienfuegoswho had direct contact with the third case, from the same territory.
Previously, the infection of a 27-year-old woman and those of a 60-year-old Cuban resident in the US, and a 50-year-old Italian tourist had been reported. East He passed away days after testing positive for the disease. in Cuba.
