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05-12-2011, 04:00 PM
In response to the fear that has gripped the residents of La Cienaga over a possible outbreak of cholera, the president of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) and other members inspected the houses of the affected families yesterday. Senen Caba, Clemente Terrero, an expert on infectious diseases, and epidemiologist Carlos Feliz went down Respaldo Street #9 where sick people of all ages were waiting for the results of laboratory tests from the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital where they received medical treatment.
Faced with the clinical situation and the Ministry of Public Health's claim that the possible outbreak of cholera is normal, their denial of fatalities and their refusal to allow private clinics to carry out the analysis, Caba told Diario Libre reporters that he would arrange for these private establishments to provide free testing for those affected. He told reporters that the authorities were hiding the cases, which he blamed on a lack of safe drinking water and to the sanitary conditions that affect the sector.
Meanwhile Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas maintains his position of notifying the number of cases and the deaths on a weekly basis, and says that these outbreaks are normal. He said that a similar case occurred in Banica, Elias Pina and other communities in the southwestern region.
In La Cienaga, Diario Libre reporters witnessed a little boy walking through puddles of stagnant water, a little girl giving a bottle to a baby, a poultry butcher slaughtering a chicken next to a channel, a family sleeping a step away from sewage waters and a housewife throwing out her garbage into the channel. These are features of daily life in the sectors of El Arrozal and Los Cocos, in La Cienaga, where the first cases of the outbreak of a disease with clinical symptoms similar to cholera were reported, although the Public Health Ministry says that it is waiting for the official results in order to confirm the presence of the disease. People in the area eat fish caught from the Ozama River, the same river where a little girl disappeared a week ago after falling through a grating and her body was not found for two days due to the amount of refuse in the waters.
"Whoever comes to La Cienaga and does not get their pants muddy did not come to La Cienaga," says Domingo Paulino jokingly. He is the secretary general of the Foundation of Garbage Collection and City Cleaning, Fucosaguscigua 27. He showed the reporters what he meant as he jumped along the muddy streets that crossed the sector.
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Faced with the clinical situation and the Ministry of Public Health's claim that the possible outbreak of cholera is normal, their denial of fatalities and their refusal to allow private clinics to carry out the analysis, Caba told Diario Libre reporters that he would arrange for these private establishments to provide free testing for those affected. He told reporters that the authorities were hiding the cases, which he blamed on a lack of safe drinking water and to the sanitary conditions that affect the sector.
Meanwhile Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas maintains his position of notifying the number of cases and the deaths on a weekly basis, and says that these outbreaks are normal. He said that a similar case occurred in Banica, Elias Pina and other communities in the southwestern region.
In La Cienaga, Diario Libre reporters witnessed a little boy walking through puddles of stagnant water, a little girl giving a bottle to a baby, a poultry butcher slaughtering a chicken next to a channel, a family sleeping a step away from sewage waters and a housewife throwing out her garbage into the channel. These are features of daily life in the sectors of El Arrozal and Los Cocos, in La Cienaga, where the first cases of the outbreak of a disease with clinical symptoms similar to cholera were reported, although the Public Health Ministry says that it is waiting for the official results in order to confirm the presence of the disease. People in the area eat fish caught from the Ozama River, the same river where a little girl disappeared a week ago after falling through a grating and her body was not found for two days due to the amount of refuse in the waters.
"Whoever comes to La Cienaga and does not get their pants muddy did not come to La Cienaga," says Domingo Paulino jokingly. He is the secretary general of the Foundation of Garbage Collection and City Cleaning, Fucosaguscigua 27. He showed the reporters what he meant as he jumped along the muddy streets that crossed the sector.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)