Research Quality is key to containing COVID-19
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Israel Velázquez Batista, municipal director of Public Health, emphasized today that the quality of the investigation is key to containing COVID-19 in the special municipality, where the epidemiological situation is highly complex.
He specified that, in response to the problems detected in the recent ministerial visit related to the clinical-epidemiological management of the pandemic, it was decided to reinforce the survey in the communities of cases with symptoms suggestive of SARS CoV-2 with the participation of 202 students from Medical Sciences.
The purpose is to stratify the active investigations at the request of primary health care, which allow the timely transit of suspects through the care system in accordance with what is signed in the action protocols in primary care, commented the health authority.
He stressed that among the main points of the comprehensive commission of the Ministry of Public Health were the low perception of risk in some professionals in the field, the inadequate follow-up of the evaluating units to patients isolated at home and non-compliance with the flowcharts in the bodies of guard of polyclinics and in the hospital.
At a meeting of the temporary working group (GTT) for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus, Zunilda García Garcés, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and first secretary in the municipality, called for an increase in the number of diagnoses to approximate what possible to the epidemiological reality of the territory.
Likewise, he urged to be more agile in the communication of the results of the PCR (polymerase chain reaction, for its acronym) and the SUMA antigen test (Ultra Micro Analytical System), in order to reduce the chain of contagion. and avoid uncertainty in the population, whose scenario is still complex and worrying.
Velázquez Batista specified that, although incidence rates below one thousand per 100 thousand inhabitants have been reported in recent days, the territory continues to be classified as high risk, where the Omicron and Delta variants prevail, the latter being the most lethal. Precisely because of the circulation of these strains, a possible regrowth is expected with increases higher than those registered in this special municipality at the beginning of the third wave, he said.
He signified the importance of intersectorality from the GTT to the multifactorial groups, in charge at the request of popular councils of the epidemiological follow-up of those infected, in order to reduce the number of patients who reach serious and critical states, and avoid the increase of deceased people.
This island, with 83,479 residents, is going through the worst moment in the almost two years that the pandemic has scourged Cuba; It has accumulated 4,082 positives for SARS-CoV-2 and 25 deaths since the first case was confirmed on April 4, 2020 to date, she said .
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health reported today in its daily report five new positive cases of coronavirus in this territory, all contacts of confirmed cases..