Salta: 7 children dead in undiagnosed outbreak - malnutrition?

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Salta: controversy over the deaths of two Aboriginal kids
01/02/11
It is believed that they had problems of malnutrition. It was a baby of 18 months and a girl of three years. Died last week with symptoms of dehydration. The Health Ministry said it was by poisoning and were well weight.
PorJES?S RODRIGUEZ
Salta. Correspondent


The drama of hunger in Salta
My son was hungry. " Martin said yesterday that Emilio Arias Ovando-president of the foundation Tartagal Grow, which helps the natives of the departments of San Mart?n and Rivadavia, when he reached the Mission Sachapera, ethnic wichi to ask what had killed her Leandro son, a year and a half old. The other child is a girl who died three years of the Mission Km 6, whose data were not provided officially.
According to the Ministry of Health of Salta, the kids were killed last week by "dehydration" and that "had pictures of diarrhea and vomiting," so they were treated in hospital Tartagal Juan Domingo Peron, where four children were hospitalized for the same.
These deaths alerted the community and we ran the story that would have dealt with two cases of cholera, which was denied by the minister of the area, Chagra Gabriel Dib. As soon transcended the information, the official went to Tartagal with his pair of Human Development, Claudio Mastandrea.
In November 2010, a girl of two and a half died in Colonia Santa Rosa, Oran, by a table of dehydration associated with nutritional problems. In an impromptu conference, Chagra Dib denied that it has been the case this time. In the case of the baby, "her parents had made the query in the hospital because Peron showed clinical signs of diarrhea and vomiting," says the official report. He continued: "It had been serviced four times" and had "a mild dehydration, and he was discharged on prescription from the hospital medical staff. Nevertheless, the picture got worse and then he passed away. "
For Sachapera Baby, "was attended by health workers in November last and had normal weight, height and good performance status, so it is assumed that the intake of food or liquid in poor condition could have produced the box "that led to his death, the Ministry said.
"The mission Sachapera, Martin Arias, the baby's father, told me that when he attended the health workers told her she was underweight," said Emilio Ovando Clarin.
He added: "Tomorrow (today) I will bring goods to have to cook."
"We were in several missions in August and we were surprised to see the guys with bellies bloated from eating dirt," he said Alicia Kratzer, a dressmaker of Buenos Aires which, together with a group of women and businessmen, arrived in Tartagal to deliver 4 tons of Aboriginal merchandise in 6 missions, including Sachapera. "We will return soon. In Buenos Aires will begin to receive donations in 3994 Lavalle, 5th floor, from 17 March. "
Last night, the Minister Chagra Dib, while returning from Tartagal, Clar?n attended via SMS. When asked whether the children had signs of malnutrition, said: "In the last control was eutrophic.

 

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The deaths are not explained
Salta. Two young Aborigines died from dehydration. Other children are admitted to the hospital Tartagal.
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Two children died Salta Aborigines affected by symptoms of dehydration and malnutrition after being seen in a hospital Tartagal, where other children remained hospitalized last night. Public Health Minister Salta Chagra Gabriel Dib, confirmed yesterday that the deaths occurred in the last week and sent a committee of the Social Development portfolio and the Sachapera mission area, where the victims lived, for a socio-environmental study .

The dead children were identified as Leandro Arias, 18 months, and Roc?o Soruco, age 3, who was the daughter of one of the leaders of the Aboriginal mission located in the vicinity of the city of Tartagal, north of Salta. The deaths occurred between Thursday and Friday last. Meanwhile, a sister of the boy who died in Tartagal still hospitalized after presenting symptoms of dehydration and malnutrition case.

Salta Government implemented since early January, the summer season 2010-2011 to avoid diarrhea and dehydration, which recommended extreme cleanliness and hygiene habits, especially hand washing. Diarrhea is a major cause of death, closely associated with dehydration, and forms a common symptom of diseases such as hepatitis.

 

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Two children die from malnutrition
[February 1, 2011 11:33]
It was in Salta. The children, aged one and three years, suffered a picture of severe dehydration and malnutrition. Four children hospitalized with similar symptoms.


STARVATION. The severe case of malnutrition and dehydration killed two children. (Photo illustration)

Two children died and four others were hospitalized in Salta, the product of a picture of malnutrition and dehydration, as confirmed from the Ministry of Health of that province.

Health Minister Salta, Chagra Gabriel Dib, reported that it is boys belonging to the Aboriginal mission Sacha Pera, who lives in the vicinity of Tartagal.


The deceased are two brothers, a son of one year and three sister.

The cases occurred last week and were released Monday. Besides those killed, four others were hospitalized with similar symptoms.

Dib said Chagra portfolio specialists investigating the origin of cases and ruled out the possibility of a cholera outbreak.

 

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Another child died in the north of Salta from dehydration
Belonged to ethnic Wichi. Is the third to die in a week.
03.02.2011 19:24 | Agency DyN1 |

An Aboriginal child in northern Salta died from dehydration due to an intestinal infection, the same picture that caused the death of two children of the same ethnicity, Wichi, last week, as dozens of children were assisted by similar diseases .
The Association of Health Professionals Salta (APSAD), meanwhile, denounced the "hypocrisy of the government (Juan Manuel) Urtubey and his Minister (of Health, Gabriel) Chagra Dib" and warned in a statement that "tried to shake off political accountability of chronic hunger and lack of potable water, the real causes of these and many other preventable child deaths. "
Provincial health authorities, meanwhile, reported the death and said the child was assisted in January by a panel of diarrhea and vomiting in the hospital in the town of Morillo, but then would not have returned to a new query.
Undersecretary of Health Services of the province, Juan Jos? Esteban, said the boy, a native of General Ballivian, was treated on 11 January at the health center and a week later his mother asked released to return to their place of residence. The child was found weeks later with the "same box infectious," said the official, said at that time was "re-boarding" in the hospital of Oran.
Stephen explained that the infectious process that killed the child "could have been the result of the constant migration" of the family, but did not rule that physicians who attended could have given the "high prematurely." Meanwhile, another Aboriginal child had to be hospitalized yesterday rushed to the Hospital "Juan Domingo Peron Tartagal, following a picture of severe dehydration, health officials said. The toddler is in the same Aboriginal community where the girl died last week of three years, affected by a similar picture, the product of an intestinal infection.
The other fatality was a child of one and a half, who died on Saturday with similar symptoms. Since last week, dozens of children between one and six years were hospitalized with symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting in the northern province of Salta.
Other cases. Given the increasing number of cases, the Per?n Hospital a special room to assist patients with severe cases of dehydration. Doctors nucleated APSAD, meanwhile, repudiated the attitude of the provincial health authorities blame a doctor for the death of three-year Aboriginal girl, which occurred last week.
The professional was subjected to administrative proceedings because they have refused to hospitalize the child, who died hours later hit by an intestinal infection. "Chagra Urtubey Dib and open proceedings against the doctor who treated the guard at the guys who later died, not to mention that there were over 100 pacientitos in emergency with symptoms of gastroenteritis and moderate to severe dehydration, of which several were hospitalized "they warned.
In that sense, doctors demanded that the provincial and national government to "take political responsibility for the hunger and health neglect, endemic in communities of native peoples."
The lack of potable water and poor socio-environmental conditions were highlighted by practitioners as the causes that are causing the spread of gastroenteritis and other diseases caused by parasites and viruses. Urtubey governor, meanwhile, admitted that the death of the children are the result of that "there are still many inequities Salta. Speaking to Radio La Red, the president said that "there is a very dense agenda to be resolved in terms of social justice, because in three years we could not reverse decades of concentration and social exclusion in the province."
Background. Months ago they met other similar cases of adults dying from malnutrition boxes belonging to indigenous communities (see Women who weighed 35 kilos died malnourished in Salta, 12/16/2010)

 

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Two more babies die of malnutrition in north Argentina: seven in 40 days
Another two babies died of malnutrition in the Argentine northern province of Salta, totalling seven so far this year. They all belong to indigenous colonies in this case from the Wichi community living under subsistence conditions in non fertile areas of the province.


One of the babies that this month would have been one year old died in a government hospital and was diagnosed “extreme dehydration as a consequence of gastroenteritis”.

The other case involves a two year old girl from the Los Baldes colony which apparently presented similar symptoms but no final diagnosis has been disclosed.

The two deaths which bring this year’s total to seven

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Meantime in the Tartagal hospital in one of the poorest areas of Salta, six babies are being treated for diarrhoea and vomiting and another dozen remain under observation.

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Grave wich? a chief complaint of lack of medical care for your child


[February 25, 2011 10:52]

The baby of a year and a half remains under observation at a hospital in the capital of Salta, after being denied care Tartagal.
Serious allegations. A chief complaint that her son wich? refused to be treated by doctors Tartagal.

"Some time ago my little one eats and when not directly give soup does not swallow anything. His stomach seems to feel heat and then returns. Only holds water ... I do not know but it must be weighing 3 to 4 kilos, is re lean, bone and skin is pure, "he said Eleuterio Silva. The man is a boss Wich? community the Tuscaloosa km 6 in the department of San Mart?n, north of the province of Salta, and tired of pilgrimage for medical care for the youngest of nine children, now fears that the aid has come too later.

Adrian Silva, is the baby of a year and a half, with apparent state of dehydration and malnutrition, which on Thursday was rushed to the capital of Salta. From the Maternal and Child Hospital reported that "the child was admitted at about four in poor health. Remains confined in the observation room with a diagnosis of bronchopulmonary box and this time he practiced for analysis to confirm the issue of apparent malnutrition. "

Eleuterio Silva told the newspaper The Tribune that "the child is sick. Last year was three times and recently admitted he felt weak and dehydrated, but in the hospital and did not want to get to intern. " "Last Friday, at 3 am decompensation and so we took him to hospital immediately Tartagal, but the doctor said there was no bed, just to go home because the boy was safe. On Saturday my son was aggravated, then, with my wife we take urgent health post at km 6. But the doctor looked at him and there was not reviewed because they said they daily serve only 10 people who had already reached that quota.

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