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- Deploy medical care units to prevent outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness.
- Laboratory samples taken to ensure the quality of water
Morelia, Michoacán, 10 July 2018.- After the storm recorded in the north of the city of Morelia early in the morning, the Ministry of Health deployed a health monitoring and surveillance operation, as well as medical care to the population who needed it to prevent the onset of any gastrointestinal illness and vectors. Fortunately, no deaths or injuries have been recorded.
In response to the population living in a dozen colonies north of the capital of Michoacán, two units of doctors were deployed to your home (each with a doctor, a nurse and a health promoter), a group of announcement for primary care and a youth social services group providing care to those who requested it. Similarly, two laboratory chemists participated in laboratory tests and to guarantee the quality of water in the houses.
The State Commission for Protection Against Health Risks (Coepris) distributed 65 colloidal silver jars, a kilo of calcium hypochlorite, served four aljibes in the same number of homes (32 thousand liters of water), took five samples of water for microbiological, 50 determinations for residual free chlorine, without finding any abnormality.
As part of the health promotion program 50 houses were visited and 50 individual guidelines on hand washing, hygienic handling and food preservation, washing fruits and vegetables, sanitation 35 houses and 100 messages on the prevention of acute diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory infections. (IRAS)
It is important to mention that there were no injuries or deaths despite that were recorded in homes and a dozen vehicles that were totally damaged by dredging stones and mud.
Prior to visiting the affected colonies, meetings were held with Morelia City Council staff where coordination was established. with the municipal health to attention assignments that were recorded mainly in: Quinceo Infonavit Valentín Gómez Farías, Factories of the Quince, Constitution of 1824, Mirador del Quinceo and neighboring settlements.
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