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06-01-2011, 03:40 PM
Dr. Eddy Perez Then from the Dr. Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital in Santo Domingo, is not very optimistic about the current cholera outbreak. He told Hoy reporters Altagracia Ortiz and Juan Maria Ramirez that the outlook is not good as the country enters the 2011 hurricane season. Furthermore, he added that if the epidemic reaches the countryside, the effect will be devastating and every health worker and epidemiologist in the public health network should be out working. He pointed out that newspaper ads were not the solution since the people who sell vegetables on the street do not even have a place to wash their hands. He said that the rural areas are most vulnerable due to poverty, lack of education and lack of drinking water.
He also noted that in spite of a reduction in the intensity of cases, there is still a flow of patients with symptoms suspected of being cholera in local hospitals. He said that in spite of militarizing the riverbanks, people still use the streams and the river (the Ozama) as their toilets and still others fish from the waters for their livelihood.
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He also noted that in spite of a reduction in the intensity of cases, there is still a flow of patients with symptoms suspected of being cholera in local hospitals. He said that in spite of militarizing the riverbanks, people still use the streams and the river (the Ozama) as their toilets and still others fish from the waters for their livelihood.
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