The emergency situation at clinical and hospital centers in Bani, Peravia province, remains overwhelmed by the large number of children and adolescents affected by influenza, pneumonia and dengue fever, health officials explained.
Photos from the Barney City emergency room just after 11:30 a.m. on Monday showed dozens of parents; many standing, others sitting in chairs holding their children. and on stretchers shared by two and three babies.
The infant remained in the room and received an IV, while others sat on a relative’s lap and received nebulization.
“They arrive with symptoms of vomiting, headache, nausea or nasal congestion. I have only treated 27 dengue patients, and they are all children.” One of the doctors declared to the reporter of “Listín Diario”.
The woman, who wanted to keep her name, assured “No, cases have not decreased for one day in the past three months.”.
A mother who took her daughter to the hospital in the municipal district of Villa Fundación, about 36 kilometers southwest of the city of Bani, with suspected dengue fever, assured the media that there were already 11 people in the room where her daughter was hospitalized. Years have passed. There are 13 other children infected with dengue fever.
A source inside the health center said, “This is a small community, the consultation these people do The number of sick people exceeds 300”, which mainly included children and teenagers and some adults.
Over the weekend, medical staff said the emergency area of the Nuestra Señora de Regla hospital in Bani was overcrowded with children. Most people suspect dengue fever.
“Look, they have done two to three blood counts when they get here and the picture shows a continued drop in platelets, which indicates suspicion of dengue and they have to follow the protocol immediately,” a doctor said.