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Colombia: Tuberculosis 2012

Tonka

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http://www.elheraldo.co/local/13-casos-con-posibles-sintomas-de-tuberculosis-61409
Spanish-English translation

13 cases with possible symptoms of Tuberculosis

The rear entrance to the Church of San Roque was a procession of beings beaten by life. Different kinds of homeless people which included addicts of all kinds: insane, prostitutes, and many other creatures lonely and vulnerable that proved a real representation, naked skinny side of this society, teaching us the different faces of a cold marginal and heavy load on his back these misguided beings, like angels that night with broken wings, they carry in the soul a raw pain that line of smoke that dissipates too quickly to the urgency of their appetites, and eyes a dirt that not only was plain and affected the smell, but is revealed as a hard truth that reminds us of the imbalance in which we live, and err is human and to reach the bottom.

This he was the scene that was found in the Herald yesterday morning during the course of the day of comprehensive health care and hygiene kits to residents of the street, the activity was carried out in anticipation of the World Day Tuberculosis which is celebrated tomorrow, Saturday March 24 and was aimed at actively seeking patients with likely symptoms of tuberculosis.

The activity involved: the Ministry of Health District, the Ministry of Social Management, Civil Defense, University of Antioquia IPS, private business and other community leaders. Yesterday in the area of ​​San Roque, 195 people were treated in a situation of homeless people as follows: 78 medical consultations, 73 oral health, 10 samples for HIV, 3 vaccinated, 53 in service and hairdressing and grooming identified 13 patients as having respiratory symptoms who have taken the corresponding samples. In Barranquilla, have reported 83 cases of tuberculosis so far in 2012. In 2011 a total of patients admitted to the TB program was 479 to fire the alert.

Meanwhile, Eloina Goenaga Jimenez, Head of Environmental Health, said, "This is the first of several days where we will be conducting an active search for probable cases of tuberculosis," the Secretariat said that all this vulnerable population was provided in Yesterday morning the possibility of a bath, peluquearse, enjoy a snack reinforced, to review your oral health, to undergo the HIV test, vaccination, change clothes and On performing the sampling to detect tuberculosis.

Ricardo Alfonso Brown is one of the street dwellers benefited from this day. Alfonso is 54 years old and 4 of them has survived between curbs and bare concrete, moving near the center of town to the good of God. Yesterday, he managed to shower, clean clothing and removed some four years of sidewalk and early mornings outdoors.

"I feel good, this is a support like family. For my brother the street is very hard. This they are doing with us is wonderful and hopefully provide us with the opportunity of a job out of the streets, "Richard you had your exams and had no symptomatology. Wrapped in a smell of hope and renewed energy, Ricardo, prepared to face the street again and its pitfalls.

Rosalba Nunez is a brunette plump, generous hips and melancholy smile that makes his living by turning off the street and passions of others. Rosalba heard that on the day they would be practicing HIV testing and did not think twice and left for San Roque Church which not only performed the examinations if they took the opportunity to accommodate a good snack.

"I ate my bread with my pony and good I feel good about the deal and because they care about us. The truth is we are all humans and we all need medical attention. This should do it more often, more often, "said Rosalba amid the comings and goings of the various anonymous people who came to this call, each carrying his drama amid the jokes, strong odors and the obvious loneliness and abandonment.

Maria Jose Castaneda works at the Department of Epidemiological Surveillance and is one that thinks this is a wonderful experience that it takes much more spread so that it reaches more people this service. "The truth is that people do not know that it serves the community and need to make more widespread," said the young dentist while he was handing refreshments about homeless people bathed and changed and they came out of the Church a new face.
 
Re: Colombia: Tuberculosis 2012

http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/cal...i-en-alerta-por-aumento-en-casos-tuberculosis
Spanish-English translation

Cali health authorities on alert for cases of Tuberculosis increased

Only in so far 2012 in the city have registered 273 people infected with the disease. Patients come from all socioeconomic strata.

By: Writing in El Pais Saturday, March 24, 2012Topics:Calihealth

Spanish experts said that the current TB situation is "much worse" than when it was discovered its cause in the eighties.
AIDS, multidrug-resistant strains and the accumulation of the world's population in cities, are the three main risk factors for the increase of the disease, experts warned.
Countries like India and China leading the number of reported cases with 40%, followed by Africa, which reported 24%. In 2010, 9.5 million new tuberculosis cases were detected in the world.
More on this storyGrowing TB cases in Antioquia, Valle, Risaralda and Tolima1,700 people were infected with tuberculosis in the Cauca Valley last yearHealth officials in Cali, on alert for outbreak of tuberculosis and leprosyEnlarge
Climate changes are causing respiratory illnesses among the population of Cali.File / The Country
Cali is rated as a city of high risk for tuberculosis . 96% of the communes of the city are typified in the ranges of high and very high spread of the disease.

The diagnosis, made by the Ministry of Health of Cali under the World TB Day, reveals that this disease was no longer the exclusive domain of vulnerable populations and instead any person may suffer.

According to health authorities, in so far this year have been reported 273 cases of tuberculosis in the city. In 2011 the figure reached 1,039 people affected, of which 142 patients died.

According to Cesar Moreira, a specialist in tuberculosis of the Ministry of Health of the city, in the districts 13 (east) and 3 (north) of Cali had the highest number of cases of the disease last year. 157 people acquired this bacterial infection in these areas.

"In any community of Cali are fewer than 25 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, so that all zones are at high risk," said Moreira.

Thus, in some southern districts of the city, as 17, there were 32 cases last year, while in the district 19 of 50 people were reported affected. The commune 2 reported 30 patients with tuberculosis in 2011.

Specialist explains that Cali share common areas like the Mass Transit System or public places like shopping centers, so that the bacilli that cause disease, are in the air whenever an infected person talks, or sneezes, so the disease can lodge in the lungs of anyone.

Although it is thought that TB also targets only people who are affiliated to the subsidized health or population without coverage, the numbers say otherwise.

The records of the Ministry of Health of Cali indicate that in 2011 37% of all reported cases (1,039) were assigned to the contributory scheme. 44% had the subsidized regime. The remaining 16% belongs to the uninsured.

Maritza Isaza, chief of epidemiology at the Ministry of Health of the city, said the problem is being broadcast late diagnosis, either because people have no perception of risk about the disease and lack of initiative by some specialists to diagnose early.

In this regard, Ricardo Mosquera, a pulmonary specialist at Hospital Universitario del Valle, said that sometimes the smear (essential test for TB) does not yield the accurate diagnosis of the disease.

HUV The specialist explained that determining whether a child or an adult, for example, have tuberculosis, it becomes much more difficult "because these patients do not expectorate (expel phlegm). A confirmed diagnosis, performing all necessary tests, it may take up to a month or two. There are exceptional occasions to confirm the disease can last from six months to a year. "

In this regard, the Secretary of Health of Cali, Diego Calero, said that "it is important to suspect and testing in patients suffering from cough for more than two weeks, chest pain and fever."

Calero also said that "work on early case detection and care of people surrounding the patient. So cut the chain of transmission. "
 
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