Influenza threatens migrants in Sinaloa



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Culiacán.- In the municipality of Escuinapa 26 are registered case of influenza AH1N1, which implies a risk for migrant groups waiting in La Concha concha, almost on the border with Nayarit.

Rafael Felix Espinoza, Director of Prevention and Health Promotion, noted that brigades are maintained at that time and in Mazatlan to serve the passing Central Americans, which present images of colds and diarrhea.

He pointed out that since municipalities of Escuinapa and El Rosario were the most punished by Hurricane "Willa", the environment is too wet, it is necessary to accelerate the crossing of caravans by the state of Sinaloa.

He added that the medical brigades, located in the council of Concha County, attended men, women and children with colds, because many of them travel in discovered caravans.

A camp type was set up at Concha County Council, in Escuinapa Municipality, to serve 2,791 migrants, where hot food is served, water and medical care.

The Undersecretary of State to the Government, Marco Antonio Osuna Moreno, He announced that another group in the state of Jalisco had stopped using toilets and continuing its route.

He announced that in the day they arrived at Union Concha, on the edge of the state of Nayarit, new groups that added 800 people, men, women and children.

Mazatlan Civil Protection Coordinator, Eloy Ruiz Gastelum, He stated that the Lions Club had been created in case some Central American groups wanted to go to the harbor to rest before continuing their journey.

He said that Tuesday night, in the refuge of the Catholic temple of San Francisco de Asís, in the district of Salvador Alvarado, 47 migrants were treated by a medical staff who treated them for diarrheal diseases.

He added that he was aware that on the eve of Wednesday, in 338 buses, 1,336 Central Americans had continued their journey, supplied with water, fruit and other food by the DIF system staff.

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