Re: Tlaxcala: Cases
Adding report of death from an article of May 5th
Source:
http://www.e-consulta.com/tlaxcala/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10090&Itemid=28
Puebla government said that the third case of influenza is a tlaxcaltecas PDF
By Suzana De Los Angeles
Tuesday, 05 May 2009
A day after the Federal Ministry of Health announced the discovery of a third case of influenza in the state, the Interior Minister, Mario Montero Serrano said that it is an original person that works in Tlaxcala Puebla.
He said that the federation may take into account only the city where the sick and not working his residence, which could have altered the figure in the state. However, he pointed out, this person receives medical care in neighboring tlaxcaltecas.
At a press conference, Antonio López Marín, secretary of Health, announced that the fence will be reinforced in municipalities such as health Xicotepec and Tlapanalá, because there is a risk that other cases are detected in that area.
He will be distributed four tons of mask, gloves, gogles, and antibacterial soap for hospitals and clinics in the health sector in the state.
Meanwhile, pharmacies in the antiviral drug Tamiflu, which controls the symptoms of influenza-will be sold only on prescription.
On the outbreak detected in the community of La Ceiba, in the region of Xicotepec Juarez, noted that patients receiving medical treatment at the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), while it considers whether suffering from influenza type A H1N1.
Moreover, the official confirmed the death of the teacher Esther Muñoz Blanca Guzman, originally Papalotla in the municipality of Tlaxcala, who worked at a preschool in Santa Rita Tlahuapan in Puebla.
Explained that the woman was admitted to General Hospital on April 16 Tlaxcala, a result of a complication in pregnancy of 32 weeks. After giving birth to a baby and half a kilo of weight, the patient experienced a flu-like box that degenerated into human influenza, which caused his death last April 29.
It should be noted that hours later, in the city of Tlaxcala, relatives of the teacher that she had not died from influenza, but a picture of infections related to pregnancy. The statement was made to end the actions of discrimination that are covered in your community, consider carrying the virus.
So far the authorities have confirmed three human cases of influenza: a patient in the hospital of San Alejandro IMSS Texmelucan native of Saint Martin, a man aged 27 from East, attended at the IMSS El Seco, and third, a native of Tlaxcala working in Puebla, whose case is different from the teacher dead.
Reviewed on: 05-05-2009 09:10
Source:
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldetlaxcala/notas/n1145608.htm
First flu victim dies in Tlaxcala
Health authorities in the OPD of Tlaxcala confirmed the death of a woman who was pregnant, the result of human influenza. Foto: Cesar Rodriguez / El Sol de Tlaxcala
El Sol de Tlaxcala
May 2, 2009
Moises Morales
Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala .-
A woman of 39 years in gestation, originally from the village of San Buenaventura, Papalotla, died a victim of human influenza A (H1N1). The preschool teacher was female and, even before his death, he worked in an educational institution of the state of Puebla.
Seven hours after the secretary of Health, Government of the Republic, José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, informed the media that a woman had died tlaxcaltecas by this evil, the government of Héctor Ortiz Ortiz confirmed that the death, as agreed Sunday Ahuactzi Fernandez, a spokesman for the Executive Branch, "took us by surprise."
Meanwhile, health authorities revealed that when investigating the death of a man 45 years of age in the clinic 2 Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) in Apizaco was also due to the virus and reported that maintain under observation in their home a child from Hueyotlipan, who was diagnosed as positive, but not requiring hospitalization, not to present a serious symptom.
Having established that the information disclosed yesterday morning by Córdova Villalobos "took us by surprise," Fernandez Ahuactzi and the secretary of Local Health, Constantino Perez Quiroz, came to public light after 15:00 hours (about seven hours after be aware of the death of an official), arguing that "corroborated the fact."
Even noted that the delay was due to sustained, together with delegates from the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), and Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), an extraordinary meeting of the State Board of Health to take access to all data on the death of the woman who said at the national level. Despite not having accepted immediately the Government of Felipe Calderón, the officials denied that there is no coordination between both levels of government.
The woman gave birth to a deceased
man alive
At a press conference, Secretary of Health, Constantino Perez Quiroz, said that before he died, April 29, the woman gave birth to a male 32 weeks of gestation and weighing 1,250 kilograms was, who so far is evolving satisfactorily in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Hospital OB-GYN of Sesa, without being detected the virus.
Said the woman was admitted to the General Hospital of the ISSSTE April 16 due to complications in pregnancy, with the passage of days was getting worse and then several studies were performed.
"So I officially announce that the 43 positive had reported yesterday, leaving two positive human influenza (H1N1): a child of six years of Hueyotlipan, who was given the preventive measures and is at home without problem or risk. We went to their contacts and no other person has symptoms so far. "
He continued: "The patient is a death that relates to the ISSSTE. A woman of 39 years, originally from Papalotla, who entered the hospital on April 16. He died and 29 were pregnant ... was a product of 32 weeks gestation which was removed via cesarean section, and the child had a weight of one kilo 250 grams. It is currently in intensive care Chiautempan with a satisfactory evolution. "
Argued that the death was not released in recent days, as studies that were carried to the body were sent to Mexico City, and so was the federal Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos, knew that before authorities tlaxcaltecas the cause of his death.
Denied that the doctors who provided care fincado them some responsibility, since the now deceased "it should have been served under," and argued that for his family, and none were revised and a table flu.
Based on official information, the now deceased was a preschool teacher and worked in the city of Puebla, and was buried yesterday in the town of Xicohtzinco, though living in San Buenaventura, Papalotla.
There are six children under
five years in HIT
Constantine Quiroz reported that Sesa sent to the city of Mexico, so far, 478 samples of suspected cases of influenza from January to date, and although the night of Thursday, the figure rose from 18 to 21 hospitalized in course of yesterday morning 10 were discharged and again there are 11 people in hospital.
Explained that a person is placed in the General Hospital in Tlaxcala, six in the Hospital Infantil de Tlaxcala (HIT) and four at the Regional Hospital Tzompantepec, all from the Ministry of Health, so far without complications.
He said April 29 that the now deceased birth to a boy, but died in childbirth from complications caused by influenza, since the results of their study were positive about the possession of the virus type A (H1N1).
The public servant explained that "43 people had positive seasonal influenza, a few 'A' and 'B'. The human influenza virus is of type 'A' with a modification in its structure all the positive ... type 'A', regardless of whether it is seasonal or not, they are confirming a diagnosis, and to this day, the 43 is being discarded and we have only two positives, which are children and women who died " .
Out that after the death in a siege Tlaxcala implement health, and called on citizens to redouble prevention measures like washing hands constantly, using cubrebocas, avoid going to crowded places, cover their mouth when sneezing and not sharing food, among others.
- And why is exacerbated if the patient had originally said that all were stable?
- "The woman was admitted on April 16 because of pregnancy, not a lung problem. During his stay began to have problems of pneumonia and it was his study went on, the product was extracted and was instituting antiviral treatment ... she graduated (dead) with a diagnosis of pneumonia complicated. We never had any reports of influenza, but suspect it was carried out and positive studies using a different technique. "
- How was the infection?
- "In a few minutes we will contact the study mandar ISSSTE to know what were their contacts. We do not know if it was purchased before or visited here."
Spokesman denies that Cuevas Zárate
has died from influenza
On another issue, Fernandez denied that the communicator Ahuactzi Luis Cuevas Jorge Zarate, director of Social Communication of the State System for Integral Family Development (DIF), has died from influenza in the city of Puebla, as rumored, and said that although his illness was connected with the lungs was not due to this.
At the time, admitted that "the information provided by the federal secretary of Health took us all by surprise, because the information he has is direct, much faster, and this has meant that we hope to provide confirmation for this conference press, crossing the data with IMSS, ISSSTE and the health system, because we did not have any official statement. "
He commented that what they did to the news of a death in Tlaxcala was quoting council meeting "quickly" and crossing information, so much the IMSS and ISSSTE were no written confirmation of death.
He maintained that "it is important to us that the information given from Tlaxcala to know what case is concerned, we can not speak without having something confirmed to not take something that has no certainty."
- There is no coordination with the government of Felipe Calderón?
- "Yes there is, but this is not a media issue, but health and safety. This is not about who wins the court information. We are not interested in that, but we have officially the information, and we ask the federal sector that we report, to take the necessary precautions, because if we learned from the media, then we are doing disservice to react. "
- The death shocked the State Government?
- "The information took us by surprise, because for us the death was not corroborated, and this allowed us to see how much is running the health sector as a whole ... not Tlaxcala feeds information to the national system, the entities themselves"
