Re: Jalisco: Cases
Source:
http://www.lajornadajalisco.com.mx/2009/05/25/index.php?section=politica&article=007n1pol
Municipalities of Northern Jaisco the worst affected, officials acknowledge the SSJ
Deaths from hunger and malnutrition in the state, forgotten by the health alert
Consultorios popular and medical teams to remote communities, inadequate supports Guti?rrez
PONCE SAAVEDRA VIRIDIANA
In the days before the announcement in Jalisco outbreak of influenza A/H1N1, at that time called the swine fever, the body was concerned about other diseases caused due to the precarious situation of thousands of Jalisco, which were neglected before the announcement of the epidemic to come.
Even officials of the Ministry of Health Jalisco (SSJ) recognized that in municipalities of northern state of hunger and malnutrition caused a high percentage of deaths, it was necessary to return the gaze Bola?os, Mezquitic, Cuautitl?n de Garc?a Barrag?n, Santa Maria del Oro and Chimaltit?n, which headed the list of counties where the need for basic services sought immediate intervention by the authorities.
In those days, the hunger of some forgotten northern Jalisco state was beginning to become "interesting". Human influenza is still unknown. The media have not started the bombing of that for months has been a prisoner of society. The reality at that time was living north of the Jalisco of the entity.
Clinics newly popular facility, the medical teams and visits to remote communities, which is reached only by aircraft, were not enough, it had recognized the head of the Secretariat of Health, Alfonso Guti?rrez Carranza. Something had to be done. People could no longer starving.
Medical services should be extended, according to statements by some authorities. The number of deaths due to malnutrition was unknown, as is so far but we knew the number was high, so say officials of the health unit.
Infant mortality and maternal mortality was also another factor in turning the gaze towards the towns behind, because the authorities had acknowledged the problem, had accepted that they did not know they exist and were committed to slowing down.
"I know that indigenous women, pregnant when you leave, instead of eating lunch stops to give birth to a little baby that does not work, and is something that does not help us," said Guti?rrez Carranza.
"It is difficult to meet and get to each of the stocks," was another of his quotes. The owner of Health in the state said that the clinics were popular enough installed, but added that "it not to take anything, I think it is a lot."
But what happened after the announced health alert across the country, that is the question of who hoped, after many years, support from the authorities. That also is not known. Nobody knows what will follow. The subject of fashion now is the flu. The A/H1N1 strain, and the possibility of other strains not yet identified what is now interested. Hunger, malnutrition and diseases that are still present, even when they are preventable by vaccination, have been forgotten.
The hot season is approaching and preventive measures are still not done in the state. Diseases due to heat are the order of the day and there is no way to avoid them. The reality does not match the official statements.
According to the National Center of Epidemiological Surveillance and Disease Control (Cenavece), dengue fever, which is another disease of concern to Mexico, is also present. The number of cases of hemorrhagic rate has increased a thousand percent from one year to another. At the same time in 2008 had only one record of dengue hemorrhagic fever, are now 10.
It is said that the outbreak is controlled, sanitary measures are sufficient, but the problem is not up to health authorities, as expressed themselves. The vector that transmits dengue beyond any barrier. The responsibility lies with the citizens because they are the ones who can prevent their spread, are the ones who will prevent excess water and keep clean their roofs and yards, that the outbreak will disappear, and if you do not cooperate, there is no measure of health that prevent resistance, she says.
Chickenpox in Jalisco is also out of control. Entity are recorded in most cases in the city of Mexico, whose population density is higher, there are 10 thousand 762 cases here, 11 thousand 684 so far this year, according to Cenavece, which registers with the scarlet 245 cumulative cases through 2009 in Jalisco, just below the Federal District and the state of Mexico, which has 657 and 449, respectively.
Pathologies in the state are increasingly common and diverse. Before there were not so, say health specialists, but climate change and population movement have led to its acceleration, agree. Influenza A/H1N1 is the disease in 2009. Hunger, malnutrition and deaths by the numbers of people affected by other factors, greatly exceeded by the number of infected influenza, are still not taken into account, but they are there and what to do when those conditions come together in a single body, weakening the immune system of people and generating severe complications that could cause death, is the questioning of society, despite the illness, can not stop their activities because doing so runs the risk of changing their economic status.
"It is not usual (which are assembled pathologies), but I am not saying that is impossible, but a sick person usually changes their activities and have less risk of being infected by something else, because he is convalescing," was the response Lucia Salazar Montes, Chief of Epidemiology of SSJ.
And if Mexico is prepared to meet this situation, after the buds have come out of control and are increasingly diverse in the state, the response was: "The state does not require a preparation to meet a person with such circumstances" .
Is only expected to spend the boom of influenza since the return to the other eye disease, of poverty, which were "interesting" before the health alert, and cause more deaths in Mexico than the A strain / H1N1 has been around the world
