After suffering from hantavirus, a deputy asked to "take care of those who take care of us"

The national deputy of Rio Negro Sergio Wisky (change), which had hantavirus In 1996, while he was director of El Bolsn Hospital, he claimed today that it was "fundamental to take care of doctors and nurses," he said. to take care of those who take care of us ".

This year's epidemic was the first to confirm the hypothesis that the variety of the virus in the Andes is transmitted from person to person because it was thought until now that it was transmitted only by the mouse. long distance "to the man.

This outbreak (according to El Bolson 1996) determined a change in the mode of transmission because we did not know that there was a human-to-human contagion. So we followed this process with absolute uncertainty, "said Wisky, a city doctor, who had the virus that I had told his ex-wife, Carolina Guasco, to take him at the Castro Rendn Hospital in Neuqun, where he had his residence.

Wisky made a political career in radicalism and became mayor of El Bolsn and government official of Miguel Saiz. In fact, he owes part of his health to the former minister and former candidate of the governor of Csar Barbeito, as it is in his car that he went to Neuqun for seek treatment. Blessed by President Macri, who received it during his long vacation at Villa La Angostura, Wisky won the fight against Cipolletti Mayor Anbal Tortoriello, who had had a relationship with Alberto Weretilneck in recent weeks.

Hantavirus campaigns and investigations are absent in Argentina, while in Chile, there is a vaccine and treatment is being treated for patients with this disease that can often be life-threatening.

However, in the last few hours, before the outbreak of hantavirus – whose epicenter is located in the Andean region of Chubut, Epuyn – the national government has ordered the urgent dispatch of 39; specialized technical equipment from the Malbrn Institute to collaborate with provincial and municipal authorities.

The secretary of the nation's health government, Adolfo Rubistein, spent last week in the area of ​​the epidemic to monitor the progress of the operation conducted by the contingency committee for health. He also visited Epuyn Hospital and Esquel Hospital, which operate as follows: zonal unit of the head.