Dengue fever in Bolivia: hospitals in Santa Cruz are saturated by the number of cases

eastern hospitals Holy Crossthe largest region of Bolivia, start to saturate increase in dengue cases with patients in hospital hallways and others wandering from center to center seeking medical care.

People line up the night before to get a file for treatment or for a loved one who has dengue symptoms like fever or headache, but many don’t make the quota and have to wander around different centers until they find one where they can take care of them.

One of the most saturated is the children’s hospital in the city of Santa Cruz, in which all its halls are full of patients showing symptoms of this disease and who have come to care for the sick in the corridors of the center or at reception.

Some people are at least three days looking for space for a family member and at least they have already visited up to three hospitals where they could not be treated due to high case demand.

Faced with this situation, the municipal government of Santa Cruz created 30 beds in the 10th district of this city and hired about 60 employees to care for the sick, in order to alleviate the burden of patients in the second and third hospitals. levels. .

Likewise, the Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) of this region works in the reception centers for the elderly to diagnose dengue fever in a timely manner and also to carry out cleanings to avoid more cases.

in the last hours two babies died a 1-month-old baby and another 2-week-old, who presented with a fever and who could not be treated in time due to the saturation of hospitals.

In addition, the death of another 5-month-old baby at Pampa de la Isla Hospital is known, but laboratory confirmation is still awaited to determine if it was due to dengue fever.

According to the latest report from the Ministry of Health, there have been 6,453 cases of dengue fever and 18 deaths nationwide, Santa Cruz being the region hardest hit by this disease, with 4,889 patients.

While in the Amazon Beni there are 797 patients, in the south of Tarija 359, in La Paz 159, in Chuquisaca 132, in the power station of Cochabamba 62 and in Pando 55.

Dengue, transmitted by mosquito bite temples of the egyptianscauses high fevers, headaches, vomiting and skin rashes and can be fatal in its hemorrhagic form.

The insect that causes the disease reproduces during periods of frequent rains in the hot urban areas of Bolivia, so it takes advantage of any space of stagnant water for its reproduction.

(With information from EFE)

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