Paraná eases use of Tamiflu against swine flu
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The antiviral Tamiflu, used to combat the H1N1 virus, which causes the flu, will be used in Parana to not let the disease from getting worse, and may be prescribed in the first 48 hours of symptom onset, when the drug is most effective .
So far, the drug was only prescribed for patients of risk groups (who had other diseases, were children or elderly) or those who produce all the symptoms, not just some.
The decision, which goes against the protocol of the Ministry of Health, was made after professionals in the Paraná Medical Association (PMA), the Regional Council of Medicine (CRM-PR) and to the Paraná Pulmonology, Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases made the request yesterday to Secretary of State for Health, Gilberto Martin. A similar decision had been announced last week by Foz do Iguacu.
According to the chairman of AMP, José Fernando Macedo, health professionals were concerned about the increasing number of cases of young patients who could develop into more serious. "We are forming a medical management of Parana to appeal to the Ministry that the protocol be revised in this respect," he said.
In the opinion of Martin, the new procedure is to make the rules more flexible in prescribing the drug, and not break the protocol. "We will not break in any way, the Protocol of the Ministry of Health that we have a rigorous evaluation of the clinical condition of each patient to allow for some medicine to anyone in need," he said.
The distribution of Tamiflu remains centralized in the State Department of Health (SESA). In Rio de Janeiro, Health Minister José Gomes Temporão has condemned the indiscriminate distribution of Tamiflu and repeated his call that public bodies follow the exact protocol of the Ministry.
The minister criticized experts who encourage the distribution of medicine for hospitals, explained that the distribution of control and encourages self-medication can lead to virus resistance. Yesterday, the Teatro Positivo, Curitiba, announced that they are suspended all the events scheduled for this month.
Deaths
In the Clinical Hospital of Curitiba increased to ten the number of deaths suspected of being caused by new flu. So far, none has been confirmed. In Brazil, over 20 deaths from avian species have been confirmed by the municipal and state health departments of five states since last Friday, bringing the total deaths to 96.
Rio de Janeiro had the largest number of deaths: seven released yesterday. The victims are three pregnant and three children. Two of them had neurological problems and one pre-existing disease.
The women were 16, 22 and 28 years. Sao Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul had four deaths each, and in Bahia and Pernambuco occurred the first deaths from the disease. Santa Catarina also announced the first three deaths, including a pregnant 22 years.
Source: California Online and Agencies
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