Paraná yields easing in the use of Tamiflu - Part II
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Protocol will not be relaxed
Health Minister, José Gomes Temporão, and the State Secretary of Health, Gilberto Martin, said yesterday in Curitiba that there will be no change or relaxation of the Ministry of Health on the prescription of Tamiflu, used to fight the disease. A day earlier, she spoke to relax the protocol was the secretary himself.
By signing the Protocol, Tamiflu - antiviral used to combat the new strain - is prescribed to patients classified as at risk or already with a clinical picture worsened. However, the maximum effectiveness of the drug only occurs within 48 hours of initial onset of symptoms.
The Ministry of Health will add to the existing protocol that every prescription out of the recommendations of the federal government, which follows the World Health Organization (WHO), will be the responsibility of the physician and the local health authority.
"To cope with the disease, it is essential to follow a single standard. This epidemic will go away if we have a virus resistant to the medication at the time the disease increase, we will have a big problem, "Martin fell, which ensured that there was no ministerial pressure to back the previous decision of Parana.
"Often, the doctor wants to prescribe the drug as a form of security. But we will continue discussing the issue with medical institutions, "he said.
Temporão reiterated that the indiscriminate use of medication can mean giving up the only weapon it has at the moment to fight the disease. "In no case may be commonplace in medicine, the side effects that can cause mutation and that the virus may suffer, causing resistance.
The physician will interpret each case, yes, but will remain within the standard established by the protocol, determined. There is no lack medicines, secured second secretary of Paraná.
"Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have enough doses to more than 13.6 thousand people and not even half of that was spent. What may be happening is lack of communication between prescribers and who authorizes, but does not lack of medicine, "he believes.
The secretary added that, until now, H1N1 has not shown more aggressiveness and higher mortality than the common cold virus and still can not predict the future of the disease. For Martin, shortness of breath and high fever with abrupt onset are the two clinical indicators considered at risk of worsening of the case.
Resources to fight the disease
Paraná should receive R$ 6 million over the next three months to cope with the pandemic, and R$ 600 thousand in personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves.
The money will be used entirely for hospitals and hospital beds for patients of the new flu. The Ministry of Health will also provide for the referral hospitals of Parana 11 kits containing oximeters, ventilators and monitors, which will help in cases of hospitalization for suspected new bird flu.
The transfer was announced yesterday by Health Minister José Gomes Temporão, who was in Curitiba for the opening of the Fiocruz unit in the first capital of southern Brazil, which, in addition to diagnosis of HIV and hepatitis C, will take place, within a few months, diagnosis for H1N1.
With the expansion of laboratory networks, Temporão believes that Brazil will gain more ability to compete with other countries for the production of inputs needed to contain the new strain.
"Every country in the world today are the responsibility of a select group of companies, either for the collection kit for the product or production of the new flu vaccine," he said.
In addition to the resources to combat new flu Temporão announced the transfer of an additional R$ 123 million to build 30 units of emergency care in Paraná, 15 of which will be inaugurated later this year and the remainder in 2010.
Source: Paraná Online
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