Drastically reduces impact of diseases

The country will end this year showing improvement considerable health indicators, especially in terms of dengue, 52 deaths last year was reduced to two, in malaria with a reduction in cases of 43 percent, and decline in the maternal and child mortality, said yesterday the Deputy Minister of health collective.

José Rodríguez Aybar referred the issue to spearhead the Act of launching of the model of approach mobilizing Social community, carried out by the Directorate-General for promotion and health education (Digpres), a strategy that involves permanently the community in the identification, treatment and prevention of diseases.

The official said that although the present has been epidemiologically active year, especially with the cholera, the year will close with this disease under containment. With regard to maternal mortality, he pointed out that 212 deaths were recorded last year, and so far the 140 year u000adeaths, although it is high, representing a reduction, while in the neonatal and infant reduction was significant, to spend 31 per 1,000 live births to 23.

He added that the same happened with malaria that more than 1,000 cases, dropped to about 700 cases this year.

Rodríguez Aybar said that to prevent that next year are recorded increases in the incidence of diseases, already being implemented the same strategies that have given result this year targeting control epidemiological.

, Mignolis Guzmán, Assistant technical coordinator and technical Digpres Director of the implemented model, and Florentine Villanueva, UNICEF consultant, explained that the new approach that it arises because it is being implemented in six provinces and different neighborhoods bordering the Ozama River, in the capital

Includes tools that allow a local labour which dealt with health problems since the community with the participation of the u000amunicipal.

The Deputy Minister explained that the community will be trained so that they can participate in the process of prevention and promotion of health.

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