- IMSS Oaxaca’s UMF No. 1 has a rapid test for detecting hepatitis C.
The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) in Oaxaca, through its Unit of Family Medicine (UMF), raises awareness of the damage and impact that different types of hepatitis can cause if left untreated.
Family medicine residents Junior Fidel Martínez and Froylán Gerardo Valeriano Pérez said that from the epidemic From a medical point of view, hepatitis is a public health problem.
IMSS doctors explain that there are several types of hepatitis viruses, such as A, B, C, D, and E, and they all cause short-term or long-term inflammation of the liver. In the case of hepatitis A and E, they are spread through food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which lasts no longer than six months.
The way to prevent this disease is basically to practice good personal hygiene, eat thoroughly washed and sanitized food, and drink boiled or chlorinated water.
The hepatitis B and C viruses are found in the blood and other bodily fluids of infected people. It is spread by direct contact with infected bodily fluids, usually through needle sticks or sexual contact.
For this reason, junior doctors Fidel Martínez and Froylán Gerardo Valeriano Pérez called on the general public to visit the vaccination posts of UMF to verify that minors and adolescents have a complete basic vaccination program.
The institute has a rapid test to detect hepatitis C.
Social security experts remind the public that viral hepatitis is preventable and treatable, and hepatitis C is curable because treatments for the disease are so advanced.