Tegucigalpa, 24 mar ( EFE).-the Permanent Commission of contingencies ( I Copeco) forecast today rainfall for the last days of Holy week in Honduras, although the first four of the period will be much Sun. Sunday 1 to Wednesday,...
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Read MorePress release of the Spanish society of plastic surgery, reconstructive and aesthetic (SECPRE).
Madrid, December 2011.- in relation to the news published in the media which exposes the intention, local entertainment of Seville, bypass in the coming days, among its clients, a cosmetic surgery operation, in collaboration with a clinic aesthetic headquartered in the Sevillian capital, the SECPRE, as representative of practically all Spanish plastic surgeons scientific society, wishes to express the following considerations:
-the SECPRE is opposed to any activity where there is the slightest risk or probability of turning medicine into a spectacle.
-The SECPRE wants to highlight the lack of ethics of these actions on the basis of the frivolity with which it is a doctor of physical and psychological issue, where not is is taking into account the role of the health professional as an expert who must decide whether it is appropriate or not perform a surgery.
-The SECPRE disapproves this type of competition because it goes against the principles and values which society has spread among its members and the general population since its creation.
-The SECPRE highlights the risk posed to the youth population converting plastic surgery in a game. The specialty of plastic surgery, reconstructive and aesthetic is an integral part of medicine and, as such, it must be exercised, explained, supported and executed by experts, in this case, plastic surgeons.
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San Salvador, 2 Dec (EFE).-the Council of Ministers of the Mesoamerican system of public health (SMSP) became today El Salvador as governing body of such a mechanism which includes the countries of the American Integration System (SICA), Mexico and Colombia.
The new organ was installed after a meeting of the Council of Ministers of health in Central America (Comisca), which for two days was held at a hotel in the Salvadoran capital to review advances in the management of El Salvador in its Presidency pro tempore.
A source of the Comisca told Efe that the mechanism for rotating the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the SMSP will be defined later.
Added that the Council of Ministers of the SMSP is “the body of formal decision that will encourage actions within the countries and will enhance the involvement of new partners in the system”.
The SMSP was created during the Summit X of the mechanism of dialogue and concertation of Tuxtla that was held in the city of Villahermosa on June 28, 2008 and the Comisca adopted its rules of procedure on 23 and 24 June spent in Guatemala so that the Council be constituted today at El Salvador.
According to the source the SMSP has as priority areas vaccination, nutrition, maternal health and diseases transmitted by vectors, as well as epidemiological surveillance and the strengthening of the resources human.
In addition, the SMSP seeking, among other goals by 2015, reducing maternal mortality by 75%, to achieve coverage of family planning in 80% of women and to reduce neonatal mortality by 30 per cent in the countries of the region Mesoamerican.
Also seeks to reduce the prevalence of the delay in the growth of the children of 30.5% to 25.5%, reduce the prevalence of anaemia in under-fives from 32.1% to 23.1%, reduce the incidence of dengue in 50 per cent and eradication of malaria transmission.
The installation of the Council of Ministers of the SMSP was chaired by the Minister of health of El Salvador, Maria Isabel Rodriguez, in an act that also involved his counterpart of Honduras, Arturo Bendaña, and other representatives of the countries of SICA, Mexico and Colombia.
RodrÃguez turned to Bendaña the Presidency pro tempore of the Comisca, that it corresponds to Honduras in the first half of next year as part of the rotation of the efforts of SICA and its ministerial bodies.
In the image, the Minister of public health and Social assistance of El Salvador, Maria Isabel Rodriguez. EFE/file
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