It seeks to control diseases

The Ministry of public health reported yesterday that he began the year with a programme of prevention and education throughout the national territory in order to bring under control the main diseases prevention.

Information is offered by the Minister of public health, Batista Rojas Gomez, who said that the objerivo is to ensure that diseases such as dengue, malaria, leptospirosis, cholera and water-borne, are kept under strict control as the year past. pointed out that the prevention of these tropical diseases is of high priority to health authorities, so its control in the national territory must start time to avoid that the population is affected and be ready to face any eventuality.

Preventive actions are coordinated at the national level, he added, by the National Center of Control of tropical diseases, the Directorate General for environmental health, address u000aNational Epidemiology and the National Commission of Dengue. Gomez also stressed the involvement of the provincial directorates and Red areas of health, which conducted days of home visits, coordinated jointly with organizations and local institutions, community leaders and local teams.

Explained that the preventive programme includes strengthening and displacement of health personnel throughout the country in work of fumigation, elimination of vectors, descacharrización and mass dissemination of educational materials that indicate how to prevent this and other diseases. Also enfatizarán in the strategy of "Chlorine untao, tank tapao" to achieve that houses higienicen containers used to store water.

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