Authorities of the Bolivian division of Santa Cruz (east) demand the nationwide authorities to declare a sanitary emergency because of the Dengue Fever epidemic, whose circumstances whole greater than 4,700, declared Paola Weber, Director of Citizen Security of the Santa Cruz authorities.
“After analyzing the situation, it was determined to demand the national government to declare a national sanitary emergency, considering that there are cases of dengue in eight departments, municipalities with a declared sanitary emergency, such as the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, La Guardia, El Torno, Camiri, among others. We need to have other types of resources,” mentioned the official.
The regional authority warned that the hospital capability of Santa Cruz, the biggest area of Bolivia in floor space, is at its restrict and should collapse within the coming days.
“Instead of decreasing, the number of cases is increasing; hospitals are oversaturated with patients. If it continues, there will be no capacity to attend to the population,” she warned.
Likewise, it was decided to hold out a marketing campaign to destroy the breeding websites of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the transmitter of the illness, subsequent Sunday.
Bolivia registers 4,763 circumstances of dengue fever in seven departments, Santa Cruz being the epidemic’s epicenter with 3,512 contaminated.
With info from Sputnik