San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba-The urgency to ensure personal hygiene and food is the appeal made in the Municipal Department of Public Health in San Antonio de los Baños to the entire population to avoid the risks of Acute diarrheal diseases in these months of intense summer.
Through Dr. Mislady Gutiérrez, head of the local program that controls these pathologies, we learned that, despite having the end of the first semester 75 cases less than in similar period the previous year, the country maintains the alarm phase for the high incidence of diagnosed patients in all medical areas. Boil drinking water, mainly in children, is a requirement for this time of high temperatures and heavy rains that pollute the water table in a town with big problems to guarantee the population a stable supply of the essential liquid.
But the handling of food, said Mislady Gutierrez, is now more conducive factor of acute diarrhea cases, they do not follow safety standards by manufacturers and self-sellers of food and government, while consumers do not give the importance to the state and conservation of what is eaten in many places.
Similarly, each household should be strict control, said the specialist in San Antonio de los Baños, for nothing is resolved by boiling water or buy food to others, if we won get in culture and responsibility for the washing of hands, fruit and vegetables, cooking and preserving what is cooking for the family.