La Plata Correspondent
05/11/2020 - 19:51
- Clarín.com
- Society
The Province intends to block, or at least delay , the entry of the coronavirus into the impoverished towns and settlements of the Conurbano. Although there are no “geolocated” details or data, health sources admit that “between 3 and 4%" of those infected with Buenos Aires live in these centers of high social vulnerability.
They would be between 60 and 80 cases, of the total of 2,112 affected that Buenos Aires registered according to reports on Monday. A minimum index before a surface of at least 1,600 emergency neighborhoods that huddle in the 30 municipalities that surround the Federal Capital.
Health authorities begin to diagram a scheme to attack possible outbreaks in precarious urbanizations that have community circulation and have presented outbreaks in recent weeks. It will be with massive door-to-door testing, which would reach between 1,000 and 8,000 people, depending on the size of the settlement.
Last week there was a pilot test. They went to the La Paz neighborhood of Quilmes and two from the San Vicente party (Los Amigos and Sargento Cabral, where the first Buenos Aires nurse who died from Covid-19, Javier Cufré) lived. “More than 10,000 people were monitored and only one positive case was detected . This shows that circulation is still low ”, explained the Minister of Health, Daniel Gollán.
The provincial government intends to avoid the photo presented today by two critical conglomerates of the Autonomous City where the infections were triggered: Retiro 31 and Flores 1-11-14 concentrate more than 450 infected.
Compared with these data, the suburbs of Greater Buenos Aires have a less worrying panorama. But epidemiologists believe that the impact will come , sooner rather than later, to that sector of the population.
"The health strategy changed because contagion containment and mitigation in the Conurbano is only possible with the deployment of large territorial operations in each neighborhood . Until now, patients with symptoms were received at health centers and claims were contained through line 148, but now we decided to advance in this new stage, "said Gollan.
To start the door-to-door operation, a map was designed that contains information from the Provincial Public Registry of Precarious Villages and Settlements, and from the National Register of Popular Neighborhoods (RENABAP) and collated with the distribution of coronavirus cases in the province of Buenos Aires. These data are crossed to establish where the concentration of infections is .
Thus, it was resolved that the next tests will be in Merlo, San Martín, Moreno, La Matanza, and Lanús . "The objective is to attack potential sources of contagion directly and anticipate an uncontrolled multiplication of cases, which is a much more feasible possibility in these socio-cultural contexts," acknowledged the minister.
The task of sanitary survey will be done with municipalities, health promoters, nurses and professionals from different instances of the provincial government. The week before, it was a battalion of more than a hundred agents who rang the bell and carried out house controls.
In each dwelling, body temperature is taken and a questionnaire is also made to identify whether - to present a fever - it has to do with the determination of a suspected case of this virus or is it another disease, such as dengue. Then, upon detection of any suspicious case, the corresponding swab is performed and a chinstrap is given to be taken to the hospital where he is admitted pending the result.
The ministry also goes to social, union, religious organizations and neighborhood clubs, and if necessary, they will use the community centers built in each municipality. They are intended for confirmed cases with mild symptoms, and that do not have the conditions and possibilities of performing adequate home isolation.
La Plata. Correspondent
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