Ministry of Health investigates causes of death for two ITID students in Barranquilla, several others hospitalized - one fatality suspected due to mum

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Ministry of Health investigates causes of death for ITID student in Barranquilla. Another in ICU.


Faced with the unexpected death of a child under 11 years and the fact that another 12 year old boy is in intensive care unit of the Northern General Hospital, both students at the Industrial Technical Educational Institution of the Atlantic - ITID, local secretariats Health and Education agreed to intervene to actions fumigation, pest control and crashes, while that determined the suspension of classes in the student center for the day Monday, October 31. According to information obtained by the Ministry of Health, the child William Jos? L?pez G?ngora 11 years of age, who resided at the "Citadel July 20" in the city of Barranquilla, who died in the clinic to prevent, was incapacitated by illness for eight days and entered the general hospital on 10 October and died on October 13, 2011. They indicated further that the specific laboratory results for dengue, leptospira, and meningitis were negative in both cases. "The health agencies forward investigations to determine causes of death of the child William Joseph Lopez G?ngora, however local government has organized through the Office of Public Health, a direct involvement with the group of immediate reaction and extensive clinical trials to people who have been in contact with minors "Estrada said Javier Acuna, Secretary of Health Soledad. The Municipal Education Secretary has determined that on Monday, October 31 there will be no classes at the school mentioned above, for ensure the success of the intervention and not jeopardize the student population against the actions that are ahead.

 

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Local November 5, 2011 - 11:34 pm
Another student's ITID hospitalized with similar symptoms

Another student ITID of Soledad Vargas Jos? Miguel Noriega, 14, who is in ninth grade, was hospitalized on November 2 in the Clinical Prevention, with symptoms similar to two other students of the institution.

His father Jose Noriega said that the October 26 school received a call informing him that he had to go pick up his son because he was sick. "I had fever, vomiting and headache. After four days he went further complication because she was bleeding in the eyes, "said Noriega Fontalvo.

Initially the child was treated at the clinic Coomeva, where he underwent tests for dengue, hepatitis and leptospirosis. The first two were negative, but the latter still have not delivered any results. "In these days he did a blood culture and we are awaiting results, since after so many days do not know what has my son," he said.

Noriega told that yesterday was visited by Francisco Echeverria, an epidemiologist at the Health Secretary Soledad, to ascertain the health status of Jose Miguel.

The Herald tried to contact the officer to know what was the purpose of the visit, but was unable to communicate.

With this are three cases of sick children at school ITID: William Lopez Gongora, 11, who died on October 13, Elvis Aaron Donated De la Rosa, 10, who from the October 21 remains in the Clinic North General poor health.

Incidentally, the North University Hospital reported that 11 year old boy hospitalized since October 28 from Soledad and ITID student was admitted with symptoms of respiratory distress secondary to bronchial spasm induced by exercise appears.

Diagnosis ruled out any compromise infection. After treatment, was discharged on Wednesday and summoned checks. "The other two cases of pediatric patients hospitalized in other health institutions in the city, and from the same school, are not clinically partners."

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The University Hospital of North reported that for the wastewater management, have a system whose design meets Minambiente parameters. Waste management and waste is treated with SAE firm responsible for the collection and disposal thereof. Olga Luc?a M?ndez director, says the hospital "is duly authorized by the competent bodies of local and national order, which ensures the proper management and quality of each process, ensuring patient safety and the environment the Hospital. "

 

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Rule out epidemic in ITID of Soledad (Atl?ntico)
By: ANDRES FERNANDEZ ARTUZ | 11:28 pm | November 1, 2011

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Health Ministry urges caution on the case of death of student and other serious condition.
Prudence on the information given to the public asked the Secretary of Health Department, Rocio Gamarra, on the death of a child 11 years and the serious state of health of another, both students at the Industrial Technical Instuto Atlantic (ITID ).

She said that so far the tests have been performed within the school have ruled that there is viral or bacterial disease that can cause death or illness to a person.

"From a public health type there is no disease. No meningitis, leptospirosis or dengue have been in the evidence," said Gamarra.

On Wednesday, at 8:00 am at the plaza of the Santa Marta iglesista Simon Bolivar in the district, will be a meeting between parents, teachers, governing body of ITID, and the Ministry of Health.

At the meeting, parents will ask them Rocio Gamarra submit a certificate that guarantees that the school is free of viruses, otherwise they are unwilling to send their children to school.

The child, who is being held in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Northern General Hospital, in Barranquilla, presented in their symptoms severe inflammation of the carotid artery, explained the same Gamarra.

"We must be cautious because it is said that there is an epidemic, which is totally rejected by us," he said.

Infant death is being investigated

The death of child under 11 years was reported by the institution of elections on Sunday while on the intervention persuaded that it would Departmental Health Secretariat. Still investigating the causes that led to the death.

ARTUZ ANDREW FERNANDEZ
TIME CORRESPONDENT
BARRANQUILLA

 

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Asked to resume classes at school Soledad ITID
By: EDITORIAL BARRANQUILLA | 8:48 pm | November 2, 2011

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Mayor explained that there is no virus or bacteria in the school that endanger children.
Classes resume next week, after cleaning up a creek adjacent to the Industrial Technical Institute of the municipality of Soledad, where they studied a 11 year old boy who died last week and another is in serious condition, asked the Ministry of Health departmental.

The call for calm from this dependence is that none of the laboratory examinations within the school tested positive for diseases such as meningitis, leptospirosis and dengue, nor the presence of bacteria that threatens the health of students.

The initiative was raised at a meeting between parents and the governing body of ITID in which the municipal administration also announced projects to improve the sanitary conditions of the school.

"The two cases in the ITID not related to any bacteria or virus in the school," Light said Viloria, Secretary of Education Soledad.

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Local03 November 2011 - 11:54 pm
One of the students ITID and left the clinic

Police force personnel guarded the entrance to the institution because the counting of the elections. After the death of William L?pez G?ngora, the sixth grader Industrial Technical Institute of the Atlantic and the hospitalization of two other young men of the same institution with a rare disease, we generated a general alert that forced a consultation with parents family and a review of the Ministry of Health to dismiss an alleged outbreak that was being recorded within the campus.

Yesterday morning the Herald moved to the premises of the school to find information on the development of these facts and it was impossible to interview the chancellor of the institution that sent through your security personnel the following information: "We are waiting Public Health report, until we have the report can not give statements. "

Meanwhile The Herald met through a family member of one of the children detained in the Hospital of the University of North that was released Wednesday morning.



The Municipal Health Secretariat derat school.

The lesser of 12 years, a sixth-degree ITID, presented a picture which managed to be controlled asthma by doctors who treated him.

Alert family was because the patient had not shown symptoms of asthma before. Relatives say the child is ruled out any symptom related to diseases of epidemic.

In this respect, Rocio Gamarra, Atlantic Health Secretary, said that "as public health there is no report that we can generate. , I can confirm that from the point of view of all illnesses are handled in public health, until today (yesterday), no alarm, no epidemic. "

The officer was emphatic and decisive in their assessments, "the important thing is be very careful and that it is fundamental that there should be a definitive diagnosis. I have understood that the parents did not allow the autopsy of the child who died, it would have taken a big sign had been taken because diseases of different organs to verify exactly what was the reason for death. "

Meanwhile, Charity Donated, Elvis Donated aunt, the child is still in the Intensive Care Unit of the Northern General Hospital said that "the clinical picture of my nephew is booked, the child is moving in God, by the faith of their fathers and their families. "

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Notably, no mention of testing for influenza.

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With guidance they are looking for causes of diseases ITID students Thursday, November 3, 2011 15:34 0 Comments The parents gave to the lawyer Antonio Bohorquez.

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Parents of students in the Industrial Technical Institute Atlantic (ITID) are alarmed health authorities or education have found the cause of the death of a minor who studied there and illness of another child.

Therefore, we have empowered the attorney Antonio Bohorquez for it to make a custody action seeking a judge of the Republic to order a health assessment of the institution and the results are based on the decision to restart your classes .

The guidance is aimed at classes are suspended while awaiting the results of health assessment.

One parent reported that earlier this year her daughter came home from school with several hives. A few days began to have constant fevers so we did the results, which showed that had dengue.

"I went to school and told the teacher that the best we could do was to fumigate the school. In that disclosure, I learned that other children had suffered from dengue, "he said.

He said that they were to treat your house, but by order of the Northern General Hospital, where they were attending to her daughter.

"People were spraying my house were surprised when I told them my daughter was studying in ITID for they kept spraying in many homes and the common feature was that all were studying at the same school and most of the cases occurred in Soledad "said the mother.

In ITID, classes are suspended but by decision of parents who did not want to send their children to school because they do not know the reasons student's death or the cause of the disease the second child.

The child who died by the name of William López Góngora, 11, who is in sixth grade. He died on 13 October, but until the causes are known. The child had symptoms such as headache, fever and breathing difficulties.

The victim's father said his son spent three days sick and the doctors who treated him ruled that it was meningitis, leptospirosis or dengue, but never gave an opinion. After death an autopsy was not performed.

The fear among parents increased a week later, when another student of the institution, Elvis Donated De la Rosa, 10 years, began to have similar symptoms.

Donated Charity, aunt of the child, reported that this is in the Intensive Care Unit of the Northern General Hospital, where encephalitis is being treated and are still awaiting the results of some tests to establish the origin of the disease.

Of the two rare cases, the families of the students think it is an epidemic.

The situation worsened because Eliana Narvaez, aunt of William David Guzman, 12 years and sixth grader, said his nephew was admitted last Friday morning at University Hospital North, with breathing difficulties.

"The doctors say he has a picture asthmatic, and he has never suffered from that. It also ruled out that it is meningitis, leptospirosis or dengue, but have not established what is, "he said anxiously.

The school principal, Florinda Martinez Fabregas, agreed to suspend classes until the secretariats of Municipal and Departmental Health determines that the campus is in the best conditions for students.

Rocio Gamarra, Atlantic Health Secretary, said that in the ITID "from the standpoint of public health, there is no reason to think that it is an epidemic, bacteria or a virus problem."

 

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National Institute of Health visited school and dismissed epidemic
By: EDITORIAL CARIBBEAN | 7:38 pm | November 15, 2011


The national health agency inspected the school in which they killed two of his students.

That there are no epidemiological risks by bacteria or viruses that threaten the health, yesterday found the National Institute of Health (NIH) after inspecting the facilities of the Industrial Technical Institute Atlantic (ITID).
The agency, which advises and directs programs, national research projects and technological development in health, made the visit to clarify questions and concerns to the parents of that school in the municipality atlanticense where in less than a month have killed two of his students, 12 and 11 years.
Municipal Health Secretary, Javier Acuna, said the National Commission will continue until tomorrow conducting further studies to review the school and its environment.
The inspection will also include the University Hospital North, close to that institution, and where they were hospitalized IPS the children. The idea is to visit families of the deceased.
Just finish the year in Grade 11
Classes at the school were suspended until January due to the adjustments being made in the bathrooms and other spaces to improve health conditions in that flock, which the INS said in the midst of the tension that exists for the recent deaths

 

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The link to the above article is broken. Nevertheless, here is an independent confirmation of a second fatality.

Tick-borne rickettsiosis might be a correct diagnosis, but either way samples have been sent to the USA.

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Elvis died this morning Donated De la Rosa, 10, who two weeks ago was in the ICU at North General Clinic. Meanwhile, on Tuesday is set back to school and finish the school year, upon fulfillment of certain commitments to improve the sanitary conditions of school.

Ministry of Health investigates causes of death ITID student in BarranquillaA two victims rise related to the case ITID of Soledad, after the death of Elvis Saturday Donated De la Rosa, 10 years old, who was being treated in the ICU North clinic in Barranquilla.

Donated ITID was a student and was admitted after suffering early symptoms such as headache, vomiting and shortness of breath, which quickly led to a deterioration in his health to the point of being transferred to the intensive care unit. After being two weeks in a coma, the boy began to react, but in the last three days required assisted ventilation.

The last test that was performed at least taking a sample for the presence of the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, which is transmitted through a tick bite. This sample was sent to America.

The first fatality associated with the case was William Gongora, 11 years old, who died on October 13 after symptoms such as headache, fever and breathing difficulties.

The death of two children, both students of ITID, for reasons to be established, directs the eye back toward the school and health and physical conditions that are now subject to debate.

Indeed, on Tuesday 15, is scheduled to meet with representatives of parents and agree on guidelines for back to school and finish the school year.

 

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In less than a month have killed two college students Soledad
By: EDITORIAL BARRANQUILLA | 5:42 pm | November 12, 2011

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However, the authorities ruled out an outbreak at the institution ITID.
Just as health authorities issued health and calm parts of the parents of students in the Industrial Technical Institute Atlantic (ITID), after the end of October, by a strange disease the child died William L?pez G?ngora, we present a new death within the student body of the school located in the municipality of Soledad, metropolitan area of ​​Barranquilla.

This is Elvis Donated De la Rosa, 11, who died in the early hours of Saturday after meeting since last October 23 in the Intensive Care Unit of the Northern General Hospital with symptoms such as fever were complicating , headache, nausea, vomiting and malaise.

However, the Health Departments of both the Atlantic and the municipality of Soledad, confirmed that the two deaths had nothing to do with the acquisition of a virus or bacteria within the school or outside it.

In the case of Elvis, a sixth-grade, it was explained that encephalitis presented a product of suffering from complications caused by mumps.

"According to medical history summary No. 238,986 of the Northern General Hospital, the lowest clinically complicated course of mumps meningoencephalitis Bilateral severe acute renal failure with poor response to medical treatment received in the ICU-P, showing progression clinical and neurological deterioration requiring ventilation and inotropic support. Finally, the patient enters multiorgan dysfunction causes cardiac arrest and died, "says a statement issued by the City of Soledad.

Rocio Gamarra, Secretary of Health department, said that while the symptoms of the two children who died was similar, laboratory tests evaluating their epidemiological profile, showed that it was independent and two isolated cases that had nothing to do with disease as dengue, leptospira, or meningitis.

"We want the community to understand that within the ITID, or in the adjacent area, there is the presence of an epidemic or something. This is demonstrated by the various tests done on both children," said Gamarra to ELTIEMPO.COM

Panic and suspension of classes

Since last October 30 when he met the child's death William Gongora, 12, and the poor state of Elvis Donado, a squabble motivated by the panic of parents who claimed that a deadly disease called acquired within the premises of the school.

At that, the classes were suspended and the Municipal Administration, through its Ministry of Health and the Office of Public Health, conducted seminars and blocking actions to improve the sanitary conditions of the institution, such as fumigation brigades, rat and general cleaning in order to ensure a healthy environment for its more than 3 000 students.

Two children would ITID students with symptoms similar to those of William and Elvis, some parents complained.

On Tuesday November 15 a committee of the National Institutes of Health will be in town for a visit to the premises to inspect the work ITID that were made to improve sanitary conditions at the campus.