The head of the Nayarit Health Secretariat, Beatriz Ruiz Huerta, reported in a press conference that the state government spends 4 million pesos daily as part of the dengue prevention strategy, which projects more than 9 thousand probable cases and 2 thousand confirmed cases.
“We will not have a tight budget if we continue with this strategy. The governor is spending 4 million pesos per day, but this is insufficient.”
The official said that this resource has been spent for three months, when the state government began preventive actions, although she did not list the concepts of the expenditure.
Likewise, she reported that 2 thousand 139 confirmed cases of dengue have been registered in the state, although she established that there are 9 thousand 734 probable cases.
In addition, she reported that the local registry refers to 15 deaths, of which six were confirmed with a positive diagnosis.
According to the secretary, the government’s spending would reach a total of 368 million pesos in 92 days, according to Ruiz Huerta’s statement.
For his part, the governor of Nayarit, Miguel Ángel Navarro (Morena), said that Tepic is the municipality with the highest number of cases nationwide.
According to the governor, “Tepic, a municipality that is in first place nationally in cases of this disease, reaching 2,139 people with dengue from January to date” and compared this figure with the “500 cases throughout the state” that were reported in total last year.
However, the governor did not clarify whether these are confirmed cases or projections related to probable cases, although he estimated that Nayarit is also in the first places nationally in incidence.
“I am worried, extremely worried, but I must also be extremely busy because, in absolute numbers, even though there are other states with a greater number of inhabitants, Nayarit is in first place nationally and, despite having larger cities, we have to make a call to the population.”
Navarro Quintero mentioned data on the investments that have been made in this area, such as chemical inputs and fuels.
“We cannot say, there is no gasoline, there is no diesel. No, we have to make an effort. It is 25 million pesos in chemicals, another 25 million pesos in fuel, what we are investing right now.
The governor affirmed that children are the most vulnerable sector of the population in the face of this disease and stressed that in the state, the 4 serotypes of dengue circulate, but it is serotype 3, the most aggressive, which affects minors and “the concern increases.”
“The majority are boys and girls. We must be very emphatic, they are boys and girls. This is where my thesis on health care as a universal right comes in.”
The state government reported that Tepic maintains the first place nationally in cases of dengue and “statewide, it is followed by Bahía de Banderas, Santiago Ixcuintla, Xalisco, Compostela, Rosamorada, San Blas, Acaponeta and Ruiz, although in all 20 municipalities there have been cases of dengue, but at a lower incidence.”
However, in the document of the Epidemiological Panorama of Dengue of the Ministry of Health of the Government of Mexico, it is noted that up to week 34 the municipalities with the highest number of confirmed cases are: Tuxpan, San Blas, Santiago Ixcuintla and Rosamorada.
The projection is worrying, based on this official document, since it warns of an estimate of 13,374 probable cases of dengue among a population of 1,235,000 people.
State and municipal government prevention campaigns are aimed at simple and free actions such as washing, turning over and throwing away containers that can hold clean water where the Aedes aegypti mosquito proliferates, but costs and details of other preventive and reactive actions have yet to be specified.
Source: aristeguinoticias
