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Union Blogs: December 2013

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Payment will verify COEPRIS 50 Hostels

Ciudad Victoria , Tamaulipas - . Water quality and hygiene with preparing food are some of the inspections that began performing COEPRIS in 50 temporary shelters set to meet people affected by the cold wave.

The principal Sub Health Operation of the State Commission for Protection against Health Risks , Socorro Hernandez Puga said the intent of this check is to avoid any risk to the health of those who use these places to keep warm .

He said that testers analyze this dependence give water to refugees , as well as foods that are prepared with proper hygiene because, he said , the intention is to prevent acquiring any infection .

He recalled that the last review conducted in hostels was weeks after tropical storm " Ingrid " , affecting the entity and does cause thousands of people attended the shelters to protect against flooding .

He said that for the front number 14, which currently affects Tamaulipas were put over 50 shelters began to monitor them from yesterday ( Tuesday), and which will continue to visit until last winter season .

Health Research 6 deaths from cold

Ciudad Victoria , Tamaulipas . - The Ministry of Health of this entity investigating the death of six people which apparently befell because of the low temperatures.
In an interview, State Epidemiologist , Alfredo Rodríguez Trujillo reported this Friday that will determine when the causes that led to the death of five adults and minors.

" I have six deaths are being investigated , we do not have precisely the cause that definitely has to do with the low temperatures , remember that it is a process ," he said .

An official of the Ministry of Health explained that the process follows a person who apparently died of cold is comprehensive and there is a possibility that other factors might be .

He said that in the case of these four were six people from the municipality of Matamoros, Reynosa and another one of Nuevo Laredo , most were destitute troubled by alcohol and other was a minor.

Trujillo Rodriguez said that some of the causes of death of these six people could be related to myocardial myocardium however, he insisted , will be next Friday when the Health Department will release the actual causes of these six deaths.

"According to what we have preliminarily , some are from myocardial infarction, we have some people died from hepatic cirrhosis , most are people who had a history of a high level of alcohol , however , is preliminary we must wait opinion of the medical examiner , "he said .

Finally , as to the statistics cases of acute respiratory infections said that to date are you registering 20,000 cases per week , which means an increase of 25 percent comparatively at the cases attended in hot season.

Health Secretary appears before congressional committee

Ciudad Victoria , Tamaulipas - . Sherpal Health Secretary Norberto Treviño García Manzo, before the relevant committee of the State Congress which is chaired by Deputy Citizen Movement of León Alfonso Perales, to account for the action taken in the matter this year , after work report issued by the Governor of the state.

With a straight face that characterizes it , the health secretary , punctual arrival hall committees to start the presentation of work in lime stressed that an important part of the policy of the State Government aims to improve the health service is provided through human axis .

In this context he highlighted Tamaulipas Health sector covers 3 million 461 thousand inhabitants , Social Security 52.8 % , 39.9 % Seguro Popular , IMSS -Oportunidades 5.1% and 2.2 % have other health services .

This has been achieved that the life expectancy at birth has increased , while the birth rate and fertility declines , and the overall mortality rate is 5.28 deaths per thousand inhabitants.

Among the information that would provide the Secretary of Health highlighted in this hearing , that the main causes of death in Tamaulipas are ischemic heart disease , diabetes mellitus , cerebrovascular disease, and liver cirrhosis , also appear in the same magnitude homicides .

Between promotion and health prevention , said the addition of 33 thousand 495 volunteers for 3000 45 health committees that are in 43 municipalities , the Medical Unit for the Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer was aperturo where were treated to 6000 women, of which 17 positive cases treated in state cancer center were identified.

Training of 90 000 mothers, to combat overweight and intersectoral nutritional state board and the state according to health food, among other things created .

In the round of questions and answers , participants were deputies Erika Crespo, Patrick King Lopez, Rogelio Ortiz, Alfonso Perales Lion and PT deputy Arsenio Ortega Lozano , the latter was the most rebuked the officer , as he questioned lacking regarding the care provided medical institutions of the state and the popular self-insurance , also the lack of medicines, was one of the constant complaints or questions that they externaron .

In this vein Treviño García Manzo state recognized the hospitals , especially the health centers , which are 295 across the institution , register a shortage of drugs, at least 5% , but said this is not their responsibility, but of the companies contracted to the distribution thereof, not because they met the established.

" The supply of drugs is generally in the 95 % , we have problems but most of all and this is not a matter of blaming others but I have the data because the companies were winners in the bidding for dispensing drugs not meet us there need earlier this year to cancel the contract of a company that was supplying mainly to the central part of Tamaulipas, but overall we have a very good supply of medicines , of course there are anecdotal case where two or three people may not have received the drug were to be remote but anecdotal events and one swallow does not make a summer . "

Similarly there recognized shortage of physicians in the evening shifts and weekends at medical centers .

The rest of the hearing took place without mishap and the Secretary of Health continued to enhance the various programs undertaken.

Die from pneumonia 16% of grandparents

Ciudad Victoria , Tamaulipas - . During the winter season, in parts of Tamaulipas, as is the case of the municipality of Tampico, dies up to 16 percent of older adults because of pneumonia.

This well was announced by the Secretary General of Section XXXIII , ISSSTE Union , Leon Alfonso Perales who added that in this situation the Ministry of Health should alert doctors to internists and pulmonologists .

He clarified that not all municipalities recorded the same trend of deaths and said , according to the latest figures presented by the General Health Council are cities like Reynosa where deaths from pneumonia are 2% .

" The mortality rate travels from 2 to 16 percent because of pneumonia , probably due to the type of region lies that big difference between over and over but should alert physicians , specialists , pulmonologists , internists so I take special care in handling these patients, " he said.

Finally De Leon Perales appealed to the people , mainly the elderly and patients with diabetes to get vaccinated against influenza because the application of the same will avoid them any complications in his health this season.

"You have to prepare for this winter season , you should go on prophylactic , which is the vaccine for both influenza and pneumococcal vaccines , especially the pneumococcal and influenza as we saw has been presenting at different ages ," he said .

Kill the first 6 of the winter season are recorded

Ciudad Victoria , Tamaulipas - . Barely cold front number 14 is registered and the health secretary recorded the first 6 deaths in the winter season,

This was revealed by the state epidemiologist Alfredo Rodríguez Trujillo, who described so far dead people have been found to suffered from heart attacks and liver cirrhosis , and therefore analyze whether the low temperatures had to do with his death.

"According to what we have preliminarily some are heart attacks , teneo there some people who died of liver cirrhosis , most have a history of being people who had a significant degree of alcoholism, but as I say this is preliminary and we will have to wait for the opinion of the medical examiner to determine the cause. "

Such mishaps were reported this week in the municipalities of Matamoros , Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo.

"Whoever is first recorded on the 24th and the last day 27, we have most Matamoros , Reynosa and Hurry are investigating one in Nuevo Laredo ."

Along with these deaths , the epidemiologist said he learned of the death of a child who died suffocated by covering it too .

In this vein said epidemiologist suffocation deaths occur throughout the year , so you can not pin it to low temperatures .

"Really cases of suffocation problems that arise even in the hot season and are not deaths or diagnosis or cause of death that can be attributed ."

In this vein said " the only causes of death that can be attributed to cold are the problems of hypothermia, when people are exposed to much or prolonged low temperatures time problems poisoning butane gas carbon monoxide also occur when people try to mitigate the cold . "

In this context, he urged parents to be cautious and do not cover most infants, or sleep in the bed in the middle of them , to prevent choking or apachurren .