Although he fails to stop thedengue in the country, the Cuban government expressed its willingness to helpcontrol mosquitoTemples of the Egyptians with Jamaica, where this Saturday the health authorities declared the epidemic phase due to a significant increase in cases of the disease.
“Help Jamaica control the mosquitoTemples of the Egyptians, which causes dengue, is just what Cuba would love to do,” said the Cuban ambassador in Jamaica,Fermin Quiñones Sánchez, cited by the digital newspaperJamaica Observer.
“Cuba has great experience in the fight against dengue,” said the diplomat, after a call made by theDr. Morais Guy, opposition health spokesperson in Jamaica, who recommended turning to Cuba for help with the disease control programmosquitos, after an increase in dengue cases.
The day before, the Jamaican Ministry of Health decreed theepidemic status due to the report of 565 cases, including 78 confirmed, mostly in Kingston and Saint Andrew, Saint Catherine and Saint Thomas, said a note from theagencyWHICH.
According to the government statement, Jamaica exceeded the dengue epidemic threshold last July and August, and is on track to do the same in September, after registering a significant increase in relation to what is usually observed in these months of the year.
The Cuban ambassador said that his government has “developed chemical products in the country to control pests that do not affect human or animal health.”
“We have experience working in communities, very closely with the population and with different civil society organizations to confront dengue,” said Quiñones.
“First of all, it is necessary to approach dengue as social and cultural education... to tell people what to do to not spread the disease.”mosquito Temples of the Egyptians, which is something very common in our tropical countries,” said the Cuban official.
According to the representative of the regime in Jamaica, “there are large, important and very well-equipped systems, installed for hygiene and epidemiology in each municipality and in each rural town, and they participate with the general population,” although he did not specify which ones or What type of systems are you mentioning?
Quiñones' statements occur in a context in whichCuba continues to be hit by dengue outbreaks in different provinces and localities, although the government has kept hidden - as usual - the national statistics on the disease this year.
Meanwhile, on social networks, Cubans reveal cases of deaths due to the disease, such as the recent ones of ayoung radio worker in Sancti Spíritus and ofa child in Havana.
The official press, however, silenced these cases, while extolling thatAnother minor was saved from hemorrhagic dengue in a Guantánamo hospital.
Meanwhile, in Cuban provinces thealarm due to the rise in infections and the high infestation rates of the mosquito that causes the disease.
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