In the country suffer burns about 30 thousand people per year

En Dominican Republic suffer burns due to different causes an average of 30,000 people per year and of those some 3,000, equivalent to 10 percent, they require hospitalization, of which an average of 290 are entered in the unit of burned Pearl d. Ort, of City sanitary Luis Eduardo Aybar, only specialized Centre for adults burned the country's.

in that unit are entered which suffer large burns, or in more than 25 percent of the body surface or involving loss of members. On an outpatient basis, being most mild Burns, Unit attends each year to approximately 3,500 people.

El 50 percent of burned patients that are addressed in the Centre is due to flame or fire gas, kerosene, propane, fuer-oil, gasoline and 35 percent for electricity, being the only country in the world that reported Burns by theft of electricity, Dominican Republic and between 10 to 15 percent for accidents u000ain the home or scald.

Details
details were offered directory daily by the new director of the burn unit, Enrique José Jiménez Then, who replaces in the charge Carlos de los Santos, assigned to direct the area of burn patients of the hospital of Traumatology Ney Arias Lora, who is in the process of opening. Specialist noted that Dominican Republic is the country that has highest percentage of index of Burns, because patients have an average of 48 percent of burned body surface area, while United States and Europe the average number of Burns is 30 percent

Explained that the country that exhibits most burn for electricity in the world is Dominican Republic and is the only reported Burns by theft. Electricity is the cause of 35 per cent of the placement in the Centre, with China, the country that most approaches with 11 percent.

Said that also is the that. u000areports higher rate of burns in the home by scald, such as hot water, hot habichuela, oil, especially in children, and that hence the importance of prevention, not cook with loaded children, who are not left alone in the House and not be allowed to infants being in the kitchen

Added that the handling of the gas tank is another reason for the high rate of Burns, which sells yaniqueques where has the tank next to the cauldron and the children around; in the home is established that the cylinder must be at least three to five meters away from the stove, but that is not the Dominican reality. Recommended is to be out of the House or apartment, but the country is within the home to prevent the theft.

Said that the majority of countries reported burns in the industry, but the country is the contrary.

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The beds are insufficient
the unit of burned Pearl F. Ort. u000a19 years working in the country and has 10 beds reserved for hospitalization of critical patients, which are inadequate to the high demand.

"We have 10 beds for critical patients for about 55 percent of the adult population, since it is assumed that we are covering a population of about 5.5 million people", said director.

Jiménez Then recalled that this is a unit of international reference, where arrived even pilots burned elsewhere and is trained international staff, as an example cited to Nicaragua than when I was doing a burn unit for children, staff wine training at the Centre.

Jiménez Then internista physician and nephrologist, has 18 years working in that unit and took over as director two months ago. The highest priorities the focuses on obtaining ventilated, the Centre has two, and requires at least five. To its u000aarrival initiatives debt who had patients with the Centre amounted to 5.5 million pesos.

To convert the unit in self-managed, is starting to sign agreements with private ARS. Currently receives a grant of 2.5 million pesos.

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