Health unites boroughs to contain flu

Health Minister Monica Garcia meets with autonomous regions

healthy want to Stopping the Wave of Flu Infections The organization travels across the country and for this purpose a meeting of the Inter-territorial Health Committee was held on Monday. A meeting between the Ministry of Health and the community will be held but no specific measures will be proposed after cases surged 75% last week.

The epidemic is expected to reach its peak next week. Since a month ago, the incidence rate across Spain has increased from 100 to 438 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In Castilla-La Mancha they average twice as much.

this Health Minister Monica GarciaA call was made to the health ministers of each autonomous region on Thursday, January 8. Fátima Matute, Minister of Health of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, explained in a statement to esRadio that “this should have been foreseen earlier, as has been done by many autonomous communities, especially Madrid, starting from November this year We have been working hard since the beginning of winter, because please tell me, on January 8, when we are at the peak of the epidemic, what measures will you take in coordination between ministries,” Matute explain.

For Madrid, the minister is late

He stressed that the Minister of Health had been “absent” since December 21 last year and that this inter-departmental meeting came “late” when the Minister of Health influenza incidence The numbers in Spain were on the rise last week.

Counselors ask citizens “not to worry, because we counselors are already at work” because “flu and health do not understand the holidays, we have been where we have to go, working with professionals, coordinating this plan against influenza to To try to mitigate the increase in hospital visits (as has been done in Madrid) and avoid having to suspend scheduled admissions or scheduled surgeries (as we have achieved so far).

Matut said the incidence of influenza and other respiratory viruses in the Madrid Autonomous Region is similar to other years before the pandemic, explaining that the incidence of influenza has been increasing over the past four weeks and is expected to Peaked after Three Kings Day We found out about these respiratory infections after family gatherings this holiday season.

“We’re busy, but we don’t have to worry We are not in a state of alarm either,” he stressed.

As of now, the Madrid community has 230 cases of influenza per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure similar to pre-pandemic figures.

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