2023-04-22 03:41:31
The official pointed out that these professionals visit houses in focal control operations, actively search for symptomatic people and provide the community with supplies for prevention.
The Provincial Minister of Health, Luis Medina Ruizhighlighted the work carried out by the social and health agents of the central area to combat the dengue epidemic.
During a meeting in the Orestes Caviglia Room, the official and the attendees also discussed strategies to continue fighting the mosquito and prepare for cases of bronchiolitis.
Dengue prevention policies
“Basically, we wanted to say thank you and recognize the work that they do. You know that in the province we are going through a dengue epidemic and they go house to house in focal control operations, they actively search for symptomatic people and also provide the community with supplies for prevention,” said Medina Ruiz.
In this sense, the head of the health portfolio indicated that the socio-sanitary agent, within the Health System, is a valuable human resource that improves the indicators and that they will continue to bet on their training. “Today we had this meeting and we want to thank you and we will continue to hold other meetings with the other areas.”
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In addition, he said that he delivered equipment for the CAPS such as blood pressure monitors, repellents, among other elements.
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For his part, the general supervisor of socio-sanitary agents, Domingo Mirk, said that in this dengue contingency they work from Monday to Monday, without rest, monitoring the well-being of the community. “We managed to reduce the number of cases thanks to teamwork. I only have words of gratitude for each of the socio-sanitary agents in the province ”, he highlighted.
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The professional explained that his duty is promotion, prevention and above all the accompaniment and advice to families.
Regarding the dengue epidemic, he indicated that they go house to house asking the community to carry out preventive measures so that there is no possibility of a mosquito breeding ground: “We are educating to reduce and eliminate this mosquito.”
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