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Santiago (Dominican Republic), 22 Aug (EFE).-suspected cases of cholera are still on the rise in hospitals public and private of the Santiago province in the Dominican Republic North, where in the town of Tamboril at least 550 people have been treated in the past eight days with diarrhoea acute.
cases attended in public Santiago and Tamboril hospitals are added others in clinical private.
neighbors of Tamboril, where there was the greatest number of cases, complain that the water they receive is of terrible quality.
the Director of the Clinical Center private medical Union, Santiago, MarÃa de León, defined the situation as worrying as that of 33 patients who responded in less than two weeks, 7 gave positive cholera following the results of tests that were immediately notified to the Ministry of public health.
“Met verdachte cholera gevallen zijn sterk toegenomen in de kliniek en alle zijn van Tamboril en komen via noodsituatie, “zei De León.
de situatie in Tamboril gedwongen die vandaag er de Minister van volksgezondheid, Freddy Núñez Hidalgo, die het openbare ziekenhuis van die gemeente waar ten minste 550 personen zijn behandeld verplaatst in recente dagen met symptomen van cholera. bezocht
de ambtenaar vertelde lokale media dat de volksgezondheid zal blijven in de voorhoede van de situatie totdat onder controle.
Tamboril gezondheidsautoriteiten hebben ermee ingestemd om te bevestigen dat, blijkbaar, de uitbraak van diarree is veroorzaakt door besmetting van het water wordt verbruikt door de bevolking. EFE