Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Argentina: Population faces a bad health

01 de Julio de 2009


LA PLATA, (DIB) .- The head of the Association of Health Professionals in the Republic of Argentina, Jorge Yabkowski, said that the population faces a "bad health" in the midst of the pandemic influenza A (H1N1), which the country claimed the lives of at least 43 people. "We are suffering.

The system is always at the limit, and when demand is doubling, it overflows. We are suffering a lack of political leadership.

We are not Ministry of Health, without a declaration of health emergency and orders," he said Yabkowski .
In statements radiales, said: "This is a bad health.

Faced with an epidemic gives Emergency province by province, after the elections, when it should have been done in the country and more than 10 days," he said.

"On June 17, the Ministry of Health of the Nation and the province launched the treatment protocol to patients, and was not implemented because there was no Tamiflu in hospitals or pharmacies," told.

According said, "if we are to treat those who have symptoms, there is no Tamiflu in the hospitals . Chinstrap If requested, not on the market."

"The management of the Ministry of Health of the Nation to buy and in turn, put (on Tamiflu) in the hands of the professionals was poor.

The crisis committee did not work and the whole world looked to the side," summarized.

Instead, "health emergency declared Chile for three weeks", which served to have a "low mortality".
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