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Cholera threatens again to La Guajira

have designed several plans is prevention to be applied in the border areas, but in practice none of them are in development in La Guajira.
Health Secretary Claudia Meza Ochoa department is aware of existing weakness, but explains that most ports are irregular and not have arrival and departure schedules monitored by the authorities, it is almost impossible to prevent the landing of the crew and passengers or let down, but compliance with the protocols of the case.
The official said that given these conditions must apply the same measures that were used in last year's emergency with the H1N1 virus. Then it was sore to the community and made presentations to raise awareness of the danger and hygienic measures. While Meza Ochoa
makes these explanations from Puerto Nuevo, a village on the edge of the Caribbean Guajiro in which 70 people survived, the leader Berta Perez hereby informed that the last time you saw there a doctor or paramedic delegation was in November, "When 'up' a health committee to give lectures in the community, we now have a clinic here, but to no avail because even for an injection Uribia have to go to," she says about 45 years, makes a living taking a kind of snack bars for a client account.
These health posts that serve no big deal today to have been built by different mayors, without any planning, because once the physical works and paid the contract, there is no way to use it because they do not have budgets It says the Health Ministry, Claudia Meza.
says that now they will work with the same scheme used with H1N1, which could be controlled without further loss of life in this department. On the work to be performed in the most important seaport of La Guajira, Puerto Bolivar, the official said no major setbacks, all Once there are schedules to comply strictly and some protocols for the use of ports in areas of risk.
On the situation in the peninsula of Colombia, the official said that despite the announcement of more than one hundred cases of cholera in the neighboring country, the department does not have information or for a single suspected case, but we are implementing all plans prevention.