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Peru has 37% of cases of multi resistente tuberculosis of the continent

Lima, 26 nov (EFE).-Peru has “37 per cent of cases of multi-resistente tuberculosis in the Americas” and one of every four patients of this disease had left medication received a mild stage of the disease, said a representative of the World Health Organization (who) today.

The Peruvian Health Ministry records currently 32.477 cases of tuberculosis, of which 1,050 are of the type multi-resistente, i.e., that the first-line drugs do not do effect.

With that figure, Peru ranks second in Latin America in charge of patients after Brazil, which has 81.946 cases, according to figures from the who.

24% Of the multi-resistentes cases in Peru (i.e. one out of four) are patients who previously had sensitive TB and abandoned treatment, according to figures from the who.

“At this level, the country is doing a terrible effort to categorize patients so that they know whether the patient is sensitive or resistant, because with both multi-resistente case you can not play,” he told Efe the representative of the Tuberculosis Programme of who, Anna Volz.

These patients joined the 56 cases registered at the national level at present patients with tuberculosis (TB) extremely multi-resistente who have an average rate of healing from 30% to 40% of.

According to Volz, the “Peru is putting much effort in capturing of patients with TB”, through campaigns such as released by the Government this year, “Lima breathes life.” “Together against TB,” in which six ministries joined together to fight against the disease.

In the opinion of the director-general of health of the Ministry of health, Carlos Acosta, “in the past, tell a country had many TB was a disgrace,”.

, “Peru has been perhaps the only country that has had the courage to say how many TB really has” in order to face this problem of public health, said Acosta to Efe.

The Ministry of health carries out campaigns of discarding and free care in all State hospitals at a cost per patient of $40 to 45 for cases of sensitive TB, $4,000 to 4,500 cases of multi-resistente TB and more than $48,000 for the patients of multi-resistente CBT extreme.

The budget of five million dollars a year from 2009 to address these cases rose to 25 million dollars this year and will be of $ 51 million in 2012 to combat the disease.

According to Acosta, “tuberculosis is a social disease, who came from poverty.” “It is the result of a social system unequal and, at its root, they are the living conditions of persons”.

For its part, the representative of who emphasized the need to identify infected persons to cut the chain of transmission.

“50% Of people with tuberculosis which are not dealt with die within two years.” “When death will have left 24 people infected, and of these, two or three people will develop the disease”, assured Volz.

“If we have also improved the level of wealth of the country, as is the level of wealth of the population and that this population with that money also live better”, felt Acosta. EFE

The President of Honduras travels to the United States.UU. for routine Checkup

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Tegucigalpa, 26 nov (EFE).-the Honduras President, Porfirio Lobo, traveled to Miami, Florida, South of the United States.(UU.) for a “medical check routine, although it is not sick”, announced today a source of Casa presidential.

The source told reporters that Wolf traveled Friday to Miami, where he hoped his wife, Rosa Elena Bonilla, who was from the last Thursday.

The presidential couple intends to return tomorrow to Tegucigalpa, he added the same source.

Wolf will travel next week to Caracas (Venezuela) to participate in the Summit of the community of American States and the Caribbean (Celac), to be held on 2 and 3 December. EFE

Almost 600,000 Nicaraguans have diabetes, 200,000 of them do not know

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Managua, 26 nov (EFE).-diabetes is a disease that affects nearly 600,000 in Nicaragua people, a little more than ten per cent of the population, warned today the Nicaraguan Association of took (Anidiab).

In Nicaragua it is estimated that there are an estimated 400,000 people diagnosed with diabetes and other 150,000 to 200,000 people with the disease, but ignore it, he told Efe the Anidiab President, Luis German.

The specialist warned that diabetes, regarded by many as “the epidemic of the 21st century”, is one of the greatest public health problems facing Nicaragua.

Diabetes affect primarily obese and women in this country, he added.

German unveiled these figures following the launch of a web page (www.anidiab.com) through which seek to support the population with information related to this disease, considered chronic.

More than 200 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes and about one million die each year from this disease, a figure that could double over the next decade if nothing is done urgently, according to the World Health Organization (who). EFE

The actions of anti nuclear Germans paralyze the progress of the train with radioactive waste

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Berlin, 27 nov (EFE).-successive German anti-nuclear activists protest actions today blocked the advance of the train loaded with radioactive waste in their route to the deposit of Gorleben (North of the country), despite the tight security.

The convoy, with 11 containers type “Beaver” and 2,500 tons of highly toxic waste is still under arrest since the GMT yesterday at the loading station of Maschen, about 100 kilometers from its destination 17.44 end.

On which the security forces withdraw in aloft one 2,500 activists who organized a “sit-in” in the town of Harlingen, two anti-nuclear groups managed to evade the police cordon a few miles from there and put chains on the train tracks.

The first to Vastorf were removed from the Rails quickly; but the seconds in Hitzacker remained still there at 1125 GMT, while security forces trying to dismantle the complex mechanism of one ton of concrete that have handcuffed to the tracks.

Police anticipated that they will need even several hours more to remove these activists (three men and a woman), while to its around has returned to form the umpteenth “sit-in”.

Nearby took place yesterday evening an action of the environmentalist group Greenpeace, which managed to chain together a number of its members onto the track, and that police took more than six hours to trigger.

Since last Thursday, a day before he left from Le Hague (France) waste treatment plant this train “Beaver”, demonstrations, protest actions and clashes between activists and police have been frequent in the towns near the nuclear cemetery German.

The police, which has mobilised 20,000 troops, has pointed out that its agents have been attacked with molotov cocktails, flares and rocks, while activists and the media have highlighted the generous use of water cannons, rubber balls and tear-gas by the forces of security.

The German police has implemented this year a strategy of “zero tolerance” against the activists, opposed to the tactics of previous years of “diffuse”, according to means Germans.

Although officially he pointed to Sunday, is not yet known when the controversial transport to reach Dannenberg, last stop on the journey by train, and where “castor” containers will be resettled in trucks to traverse the last kilometres by road to Gorleben.

For years, transport of German radioactive waste returning to the country after being treated in France generated strong protests from anti-nuclear collective germane, with recurring cuts of the tracks on his way to deposit Gorleben.

After the mass concentrations of last year, the most popular in decades, the protests of 2011 are the first after the adoption of the nuclear “blackout” of the federal Chancellor, Angela Merkel, under the impact of the catastrophe of the Japanese atomic power plant Fukushima.

Police clears the railway of anti-nuclear activists against the transport of radioactive waste, near Hitzacker, Germany, today. EFE

police clears the railway of anti-nuclear activists against the transport of radioactive waste, near Hitzacker, Germany, today. EFE

The actions of anti nuclear Germans paralyze the progress of the “Beaver” train

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(Updated status of the train and details of protests)