| Banderas Bay Region Stands Out in Effective Disease Prevention Metrópoli Bahía | |
| go to original August 29, 2022 |
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The municipal government headed by Professor Luis Alberto Michel Rodríguez, highlighted the close coordination it maintains with authorities of the Health Sector, in disease prevention actions, to continue transforming together the health of the inhabitants of this municipality.
Dr. Salvador Flores Navarro, head of Municipal Medical Services, highlighted the above, welcoming on behalf of Professor Michel, the second meeting of the North Coast Sierra Occidental Regional Network of Municipalities for Health, which he headed last week in the city, Dr. Fernando Petersen Aranguren, Secretary of Health in Jalisco.
With the presence of some mayors and representatives of the municipalities that make up Sanitary Region VIII, he stressed that for the first mayor of Vallarta, this meeting is a vitally important crusade to continue caring for the inhabitants in health matters.
He indicated that despite being one of the regions that is made up of fewer municipalities in the entity, it has excelled in the implementation of prevention programs, always seeking a dignified life for communities through health, bringing programs and campaigns to all the population, with the clear aim of making health a fundamental objective in public management.
In this context, he emphasized that Puerto Vallarta, thanks to the coordination that has been had with the Jalisco Health Secretariat, through Sanitary Region VIII, IMSS and other public and private health agencies, the problem has been brought to a successful conclusion. of the pandemic and other important health issues, with well-structured joint actions.
For his part, the Secretary of Health, Fernando Petersen, in announcing the epidemiological situation of the most important public health problems that affect the entire region, acknowledged that thanks to coordinated actions with municipal governments, so far As of 2022, no case of dengue has been registered in any of these municipalities, after the disease became highly relevant in 2019.
He also highlighted the drop in cases of influenza in this municipality, as well as the decrease in the number of cases by COVID-19, which to date registers 42 active cases, so at the moment there are no signs of a new outbreak of this disease.
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This article was translated from Spanish using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.
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