Hospitals receive fewer cases of chikungunya
People prefer to self-medicate with acetaminophen in their homes
Nikaury Arias
SANTO DOMINGO. Rosmery Colar, a resident in the Los Girasoles sector of the town of North Santo Domingo, came out of her house worried and headed towards the Dr. Robert Reid Cabral Childrens' Hospital, because her three year old daughter has a high fever and pains in her body since last Sunday night.
This young person was one of the few cases of fever in children that were found yesterday morning in the waiting room of the emergency room of the hospital. Respiratory problems and injuries from falls were notable.
This panorama corroborates the statements by the deputy director of the hospital, Virgen Gomez, who said last week that the suspicious cases were showing a downturn due to the fact that the evolution of the virus was entering a stage of stabilization.
Since the start of the spread of the chikungunya, according to the communications department of the hospital, they have attended 331 probable cases, 140 patients and 191 members of the medical personnel.
At the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital
Patients with symptoms of the chikungunya were also fewer in the waiting room of the emergency section of the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital (El Morgan).
People were heard to say that relatives with high fever and aches in their joints were medicating themselves at home with acetaminophen.
According to the Communications Department of the hospital, they have assisted 8,709 suspected cases of the Chikungunya since May of this year and up to 9 July, "registering a considerable drop in recent days, after an increase in these cases during the month of June."
Number of persons affected in the national territory
It will be recalled that the Director General of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health reported last week that the number of suspected cases of the Chikungunya virus was 193,395, with a rate of incidence of 1.594 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
This young person was one of the few cases of fever in children that were found yesterday morning in the waiting room of the emergency room of the hospital. Respiratory problems and injuries from falls were notable.
This panorama corroborates the statements by the deputy director of the hospital, Virgen Gomez, who said last week that the suspicious cases were showing a downturn due to the fact that the evolution of the virus was entering a stage of stabilization.
Since the start of the spread of the chikungunya, according to the communications department of the hospital, they have attended 331 probable cases, 140 patients and 191 members of the medical personnel.
At the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital
Patients with symptoms of the chikungunya were also fewer in the waiting room of the emergency section of the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital (El Morgan).
People were heard to say that relatives with high fever and aches in their joints were medicating themselves at home with acetaminophen.
According to the Communications Department of the hospital, they have assisted 8,709 suspected cases of the Chikungunya since May of this year and up to 9 July, "registering a considerable drop in recent days, after an increase in these cases during the month of June."
Number of persons affected in the national territory
It will be recalled that the Director General of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health reported last week that the number of suspected cases of the Chikungunya virus was 193,395, with a rate of incidence of 1.594 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Nikaury Arias
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