Re: Confirms new A/H1N1 death in Valparaiso
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Wednesday July 8, 2009
With four killed by human influenza virus
Authority provides new measures ...
A day of concern over the increase in the number of deaths due to influenza lived human health authorities in the region. Yesterday confirmed two deaths raised to four the number of deaths from complications related to respiratory illness.
The third death is a woman of 64 years who died in hospital Carlos Van Buren.
The fourth victim because of the H1N1 virus is a woman of 68 years who lived in a rural Catemu and who lost their lives in the San Camillo Hospital, San Felipe, problems associated with the influenza virus.
SERIOUS CASE
So informed the director of the Health Service of the Aconcagua Valley, Germ?n Bachler: "the case is confirmed after examinations performed. The patient was hospitalized on June 23 from pneumonia, his case was serious and he died at 12 pm yesterday (yesterday). "
This will add to the Cortez de Rosario, Buenos Aires 38 years who died in Van Buren hospital due to a systemic functional failure associated with respiratory problems, and a man of 53 years who died in hospital Claudio Vicu?a, San Antonio, for proceeds of respiratory virus H1N1.
It also maintains the latent risk of increasing cases of deaths caused by this pandemic, especially if there are low temperatures, helping to spread diseases respiratory rate.
In fact, another case of a person in a state of extreme gravity was made in the region of Valpara?so.
This is a baby only two months fighting for his life in the clinic at the Catholic University in the Metropolitan Region, which had moved from San Felipe, because of its severity.
"It is an inherited disorder associated with nursing," explains the director of the Health Service of the Aconcagua Valley, adding that "it is serious, connected to a breathing machine, and we do not know what will be its outcome."
High concern
The decree provided for the president Michelle Bachelet to extend the powers of Health will be important to combat the disease. This was recognized SEREMI health Fernando Olmedo.
"The government has acted in a coordinated way. Today the Government has been having an exceptional amount of resources to deal with this pandemic good way, "says Olmedo, using the example that" only in the Region of Valparaiso have been delivered over 8 thousand doses of drugs, with an investment greater than 174 million pesos. "
"We know according to the world evidence that this disease would have this impact, a high viral circulation. We have cases that have hit the extremes of life, from 22 weeks until the people of 83 years, "specified the regional health SEREMI, who adds that" hopefully in the next few days to a peak of influenza, then return to normal. "
classifications
As a way of ordering the system, we have established classifications seem to provide management information (which determine, for example, now in the cases of people killed by H1N1 A must be confirmed by the SEREMI and not by the directors service).
"We have a classification in respect of cases: ambulatory care today exceeds 200 thousand a day," says Fernando Olmedo.
"Additionally, with respect to the deceased, there is a classification that allows to point out that people who have died as a result of the single infection of influenza virus are two cases, and there are some people with pathology, such as failure or chronic respiratioria lymphoma, which have increased, which also have two cases in the region of Valpara?so, "says Health SEREMI adding that" there are third ranking cause of death is unclear, it can not represent or influenza human. "
As for the groups most affected by the flu distributed by age, Olmedo said that a first step in "the age groups most affected were school children and adolescents ... now children under 5 years and adults older than 50, and that is where we are concentrating our efforts, to avoid complications of this disease. "
Presented a breakdown of the unit's emergency hospital Quillota Saint Martin, where more than 600 people came to meet in a day, doubling the maximum number of patients from normal periods.
It was stressed that the community attend primary care clinics, which have extended their opening hours and extra days are weekends.
Pedro Cordero
ciudades@mercuriovalpo.cl
