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12-17-2010, 02:10 PM
The Minister of Public Health and mayors of Greater Santo Domingo municipalities signed a commitment yesterday aimed at preventing cholera in the city and province of Santo Domingo.
So far four cases of cholera have been reported in eastern municipality of Santo Domingo Province, but there has yet to be a case in the National District. Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez and National District Mayor Roberto Salcedo signed the agreement.
The commitment includes the launch of a public awareness campaign for personal cleanliness and comprehensive hygiene training campaigns in Santo Domingo East (where some cases were reported), Guerra, Pedro Branch, Los Alcarrizos, and other low-income areas in Santo Domingo Province.
Pan-American Health Organization representative Lilian Reneau-Vernon, who also signed the commitment as a witness said that the document contains aspects and actions needed to prevent the spread of contagious diseases. These would be improving sanitation facilities, mobilizing organized surveillance networks, establishing rehydration facilities, adequate waste management, among others to keep the outbreak at bay.
In the Dominican Republic, as of 15 December the Ministry of Public Health has recorded 38 laboratory confirmed cholera cases, of which 27 involved hospitalizations. All the patients have made a full recovery.
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So far four cases of cholera have been reported in eastern municipality of Santo Domingo Province, but there has yet to be a case in the National District. Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez and National District Mayor Roberto Salcedo signed the agreement.
The commitment includes the launch of a public awareness campaign for personal cleanliness and comprehensive hygiene training campaigns in Santo Domingo East (where some cases were reported), Guerra, Pedro Branch, Los Alcarrizos, and other low-income areas in Santo Domingo Province.
Pan-American Health Organization representative Lilian Reneau-Vernon, who also signed the commitment as a witness said that the document contains aspects and actions needed to prevent the spread of contagious diseases. These would be improving sanitation facilities, mobilizing organized surveillance networks, establishing rehydration facilities, adequate waste management, among others to keep the outbreak at bay.
In the Dominican Republic, as of 15 December the Ministry of Public Health has recorded 38 laboratory confirmed cholera cases, of which 27 involved hospitalizations. All the patients have made a full recovery.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)