Sinaloa.- After three months of not attending, nor have boarding schools children by covid-19 at the Pediatric Hospital of Sinaloa, the first two recorded cases, informed the director Carlos Mijail Suárez Arredondo, who asked the parents to attend to the health protocols.
He stressed that the symptoms remain the same: fever, respiratory symptoms that are accompanied by nasal mucus and cough, for which he invited parents to be very vigilant and not lower their guard, as well as immediately take them to receive medical attention so that do not aggravate the situation.
IMSS has no cases
In the case of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), so far there are no children hospitalized for conditions caused by covid-19, announced the delegate in Sinaloa, Tania Clarissa Medina López.
He explained that there are seven hospitalized adult patients who are in total in the entity, six of them in Culiacán and one in Los Mochis, however, the population is being called to reinforce sanitary measures to avoid a rebound in infections as is being done. presenting in schools.
Among the strategies to combat the increase in virus infections in young people, the delegate specified that vaccination days are being carried out in secondary schools in coordination with the Ministry of Public Education and Culture (SEPyC), where there are advances of 54 percent of the group of young people from 12 to 17 years old, which are the ones that are authorized so far.
“We still do not have children hospitalized for covid-19, what we do do is invite them to continue taking care of themselves with the correct use of face masks, hand washing and a healthy distance to avoid outbreaks,” he said about the importance of preventing the spread of infections.
All citizens must participate in prevention.
They change protocols
The state Ministry of Health, in coordination with the Ministry of Public Education and Culture (SEPyC), is analyzing possible changes in health protocols against covid-19 in schools in order to avoid temporary closures, Graciela Domínguez Nava announced. .
The Secretary of Education in Sinaloa explained that the closure of the 24 educational units that have been reported so far is due to adherence to what is established in the health protocol, however, it has been detected that the symptoms and the degree of contagion in children has decreased with the new reality of the pandemic, so it is believed that the suspension of classes is not necessary.
“As the Secretary of Health said, they are analyzing the mechanisms so that this can change, because effectively, the desirable thing would not be to close. For now, the infections do not spread with that intensity, but also the symptoms are no longer so aggressive, ”he reiterated, this in the face of the alert that exists between the student community and parents due to the increase in infections in schools.
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