Workers and unions report approximately 10,000 public workers dismissed(including health personnel) since the end of February, 2019.
telesurenglish.net reported: During a press conference on Wednesday, several unions of Ecuador headed by the National Union Organization of Workers of the Ministry of Health (Osuntramsa), rejected the massive layoffs in the public sector perpetrated by the Ecuadorean government, mainly in the health sector.
According to the union, these layoffs violate the rights of workers and citizens. On Friday, March 1, epidemiological fences should have been made, to prevent diseases related to the winter season in Ecuador, however, after the layoffs these works had to be postponed because an important part of these were workers from the Health sector, according to the Osuntramsa.
THINKING OF MOVING TO ECUADOR? THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ
Osuntramsa stated that around three thousand public workers of the health sector were fired just before the carnival holiday, as reported by teleSUR correspondent Denisse Herrera. These layoffs are “a violation of Labor Ministry regulations and the agreements (such as Osuntramsa’s) with the Health Ministry … (this is) an attack against the right to work.” Read Article
Comments Off on Ecuador: Massive Layoffs in Public Service Sector Reported • Permalink
This is an opinion and observation in general about health care in Ecuador for current and future expats. This expat recently visited the U.S. regarding medical issues and shares the thoughts of her medical team and the care she is receiving in Ecuador. The post is from social media and the name of the individual […]
Comments Off on Expat states concerns about medical care in Ecuador • Read this post »
The health centers report the arrival of patients with the infection in their eyes, conjunctivitis is contagious. By Eva Acosta Cases of ‘patada china’ increase in Guayaquil The health centers report the arrival of patients with the infection in their eyes, conjunctivitis is contagious. By Eva Acosta Thursday, February 15, 2018, at 13:03 Cases of […]
Comments Off on Guayaquil, Ecuador: Conjunctivitis Outbreak Sending Hundreds for Treatment • Read this post »
npr.org / The Pharmaceutical Federation of Venezuela estimates the country is suffering from an 85 percent shortage of medicine amid an economic crisis also marked by severe hyperinflation and food scarcity. The entire Venezuelan health care system is on the verge of collapse, says Francisco Valencia, head of the public health advocacy group Codevida. Some […]
Comments Off on Venezuela: Entire Health Care System on Verge of Collapse • Read this post »
elcomercio.com (machine translated) The requirement of hiring health insurance for visitors to Ecuador was postponed for six months Travel Writing (I) The obligation of private or public health insurance for foreign tourists entering Ecuador will not be effective as of tomorrow, February 1, 2018, but will take effect in six months. Through an official communiqué […]
Comments Off on Ecuador postpones six months new health insurance requirement for foreign visitors and tourists • Read this post »
GOLD LEVEL SPECIALISTS HOSPITAL TELLS MOTHER, THEY DON’T HAVE THE EQUIPMENT OR MATERIALS TO OPERATE ON HER SON FOR AT LEAST TWO MONTHS On the Ecuadorian Minister of Health website, the El Eugenio Espejo public hospital in Quito, Ecuador is applauded as the only specialists hospital in Latin America to be given international accreditation. It […]
Comments Off on Ecuador: Mother Complains About Lack of Service from Hospital for her injured son • Read this post »
eltiempo.com.ec, EFE- Machine Translated Nine people have died in Ecuador so far this winter because of the flu, according to a report by the Ministry of Public Health, which records up to 289 cases of infection. “Since the beginning of the case presentation on November 19, 2017 and until January 13, 2018 have been reported […]
Comments Off on Ecuador: Flu Virus Kills Nine Since November • Read this post »
SHARP INCREASE IN MANABI PROVINCE NOT JUST LOCALIZED IN RURAL BUT NOW URBAN AREAS Transmitted both by mosquito and sand fly population eldiario.ec (machine translated) The expert also noted that this year soared the number of cases in Manabí, which in 2015 registered 293 infected, while in 2016 totaled 236, however so far in 2017 […]
Comments Off on Manabi, Ecuador: Increase of Leishmaniasis in 2017 • Read this post »
CONSTITUTION OF ECUADOR – Article 50.- The State shall guarantee to every person suffering from catastrophic or highly complex diseases the right to specialized and free care at all levels, in a timely and preferential manner. The demands of patients do not guarantee timely access to medicines eluniverso.com (machine translated) In hospitals like the IESS, […]
Comments Off on Ecuador: Patients Under National Insurance Plan Complain on Access to Medicines • Read this post »
DIAGNOSING AND TREATING RARE DISEASES IN ECUADOR A CHALLENGE FOR THE MEDICAL SYSTEM ELUNIVERSO.COM (MACHINE TRANSLATED) In Ecuador, more than 400 rare or infrequent diseases have been identified, so called because they have a low incidence, says geneticist Milton Jijón of the Galenix External Consultation Center in Quito. The problem lies in the difficulty of […]
Comments Off on One in Ten Ecuadorians Suffer from A Rare Disease, Challenges Medical System • Read this post »
elcomercio.com – The International Day of Fight against AIDS is remembered today, December 1, 2017, as every year. In Ecuador , 39 224 people live with this disease, according to the Ministry of Health . In 1984, the first case was reported in the country. According to the Global Burden of Disease study, carried out […]
Comments Off on Ecuador: 39,000 plus individuals living with HIV • Read this post »
ecuadorinmediato.com (2013) (machine translated) Quito is the city with the highest incidence of breast cancer in the country According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is one of the most frequent in women, however in Ecuador stomach cancer is the highest mortality, followed by cancer of the cervix. In 2011, according to official INEC […]
Comments Off on Stomach Cancer Highest Number of Deaths for Women in Ecuador • Read this post »
panampost.com/Orlando Avendaño Around 300,000 children in Venezuela are at risk of death from malnutrition, according to Caritas, a humanitarian organization run by the Catholic Church. It estimated that between five and six children die from malnutrition in Nicolás Maduro’s country each week. INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – THIS BOOK IS AN INDISPENSABLE RESOURCE FOR ANY SPANISH […]
Comments Off on Venezuela: Report from NGO warns 300,000 children at risk of death due to malnutrition • Read this post »
ELCOMERCIO.COM – The Ministry of Public Health reports to date(middle of September) in 2017, there have been confirmed 206 reported cases of people with the AH3N2 flu virus. There have been seven reported deaths. Children under five years of age are the most impacted. And, Pichincha Province has had the most cases, with a total […]
Comments Off on Flu Reports Across Ecuador • Read this post »
One man died of tuberculosis , in the middle of the street, in Santiago . biobiochile.cl / The death occurred early this Saturday at the intersection of Vicuña Mackenna avenue with 10 July, a place where had to attend staff of the Crimean Laboratory of Carabineros (Labocar). The deceased, identified as Jorge Orellana, 54, was […]
diario.mx Mexicali (machine translated) – A 33-year-old man was presumed to have been drinking a contaminated soft drink he bought in the Mexicali Valley, while health authorities in Baja California are investigating possible intoxication from soft drinks by at least nine other people. The person who died had consumed a two-liter 7UP soft drink. In […]
PATIENTS CLAIM THEY ARE TOLD THERE IS MEDICINE SHORTAGE AT Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Radiosucre – Full supply of medicines in the HTMC ensures the President of IESS Posted on September 1, 2017 by Press News After conducting a tour of the cellars and pharmacies of the Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo, the President of the […]
eluniverso.com (machine translated) Restricted substances are used in thefts of individuals They blow a substance from a piece of paper, they give them a towel, they touch them, they apply some substance to them, like perfumes, or they give them some drink and minutes later they lose their will to act or the knowledge, the […]
folha.uol.com.br / NATÁLIA CANCIAN The Brazilian people have been starting the fight with the scales earlier. Over ten years, obesity has advanced across all age groups, but has almost doubled among young people aged 18-24 – from 4.4% to 8.5%. And although its prevalence is still higher among people with lower schooling, obesity has also […]
INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK thesun.co.uk / GIRLS II MEN Inside the baffling Caribbean village where little girls turn into BOYS at the age of 12… and even suddenly grow penises Children thought to be female grow penis at puberty due to rare genetic disorder GIRLS in a remote Caribbean village […]
.PHARMACEUTIAL ALERT A few weeks ago elcomercio.com reported a raid by authorities on a clandestinne laboratory outside of Cuenca, Ecuador. Here is developing information: .The clandestine lab was allegedly shipping counterfeit drugs from China to Ecuador. Primary shipments were to pharmacies in 31 cities in the provinces of Loja, Azuay, Cañar, El Oro, Sucumbíos, Tungurahua, […]
eluniverso.com/Johnny Guambaña – Seven detainees left Operation Drug IV on Tuesday in the provinces of Azuay, Cañar and El Oro. A suspected informal drug laboratory was raided. pharmaceutical Among the evidences seized raw material, boxes with expired drugs and others without sanitary registration. The hearing on the formulation of charges will be held this Wednesday […]
bbc.com – A Brazilian woman accused of carrying out illegal silicon implant procedures has been killed in a suspected revenge attack. Marcilene Soares Gama, 49, had been accused by clients of using industrial silicone for buttock enlargement. At the time of her death she faced court action over charges she pretended to be a doctor. […]
The South American country’s constitution guarantees free health care. telesurtv.net reported Public health care in Ecuador was internationally recognized as the most innovative and progressive in the world when they were awarded the United Nations Public Service Award. The prestigious award, presented on June 23, praised the South American country’s delivery of health services which […]
Oropouche Virus The name of this virus is unfamiliar. But the symptoms caused by this virus, yes: fever, dizziness, headache, weakness, skin rashes, joint and muscle pain. They remember dengue, zika and chikungunya. ecuavisa.com (machine translated) In May 2016, the Peruvian Ministry of Health reported on the occurrence of 57 cases of oropouche fever in […]
The one-week-old patient will be seen next week by specialist neurologists. Los Ríos, Ecuador lahora.com.ec / reported: Through a press conference, the director of Zone 5 of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), Ricardo Beltrán, officially announced that there is in Quevedo the first case of a baby born with microcephaly associated with zika virus. […]
telesurtv.net Femicide, the murder of a woman based on her gender in particular by a man, continues to plague Latin America. From Mexico to Argentina, femicides have skyrocketed only to be met with impunity at all levels of government. But resistance is growing. The epidemic of gender violence has united women of all races under […]
paolaparedes.com / Paola Paredes – It was four years ago that I first learned about the private ‘clinics’ that claim to cure homosexuality in Ecuador. My first thought was that it could be me held there and told that, as a gay woman, I needed to change. Two years later, I came out to my […]
ECUADOR MEDICAL STUDY IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS ncbi.nlm.nih.gov / wjbc/ Device-associated healthcare-acquired infections (DA-HAIs) are one of the main threats to the safety of patients, causing patient morbidity, mortality, excess costs and prolonged length of hospital stay (LOS), particularly in intensive care settings of limited-resource countries[1-3]. Abstract AIM To report the results of the International […]
INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK Brazil announces end to Zika public health emergency theguardian.com / Fall in cases brings end to the emergency 18 months after the virus hit headlines around the world Brazil has declared an end to its public health emergency over the Zika virus, 18 months after a surge […]
Dread of roses: Neurobehavioral effects found in children exposed to flower pesticides PRESS RELEASE University of California – San Diego Ecuador exports a lot of Mother’s Day bouquets, leaving behind evidence of harm to children’s mental functions due to pesticides used to boost harvest Ecuador is the third largest producer of cut flowers in the […]
INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK bbc.com reported there has been a sharp rise in infant mortality and maternal death rates in Venezuela. In the first figures released for two years, the Health Ministry said the number of women dying in childbirth was up by 65%, while child deaths were up 30%. There […]
Colombia: Shocking Video of Nurses Dancing in front of patient awaiting Surgery In an amateur video, allegedly recorded from inside the Santa Cruz de Bocagrande clinic in Cartagena, it was recorded the moment when four nurses from the care center dance to the rhythm of carnival music while they douse a patient with iodine, in […]
In an amateur video, allegedly recorded from inside the Santa Cruz de Bocagrande clinic in Cartagena, it was recorded the moment when four nurses from the care center dance to the rhythm of carnival music while they douse a patient with iodine, in preparation of surgery. INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK
outbreaknews.com – In Ecuador, the IHR National Focal Point of Ecuador reported a confirmed case of yellow fever to PAHO/WHO; the case is a 31-year-old male patient in the province of Sucumbios, which borders Colombia. Prior to this case, the last confirmed yellow fever case in Ecuador was reported in 2012 in the province of […]
Last week, the state of Rio de Janeiro reported its two first confirmed autochthonous yellow fever cases in the municipality of Casimiro de Abreu, located 135 km from the city of Rio de Janeiro. This has prompted the World Health Organization Secretariat to determine that the State of Rio de Janeiro, with the exception of […]
redaccionmedica.ec reported a group of experts from the Program for the Study and Control of Tropical Diseases (Pecet) of the University of Antioquia, will release in ten communes of the Municipality of Bello (limits with Medellín), mosquitoes with wolbachia , a bacterium that inhibits the transmission of the virus Dengue, zika and chikungunya. INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED […]
redaccionmedica.ec José Manuel Olivares , president of the Health Subcommittee of the Venezuelan National Assembly, presented the results of the ‘ 2017 National Hospitals Survey’ , which indicates that 51 percent of operating theaters in public hospitals in that country are not Are operational and 78 percent of these centers suffer from a shortage of […]
redaccionmedica.ec / Diego Mosquera. Quito With the aim of eradicating tuberculosis (TB) in Ecuador, the Ministry of Public Health has changed the strategy to combat this disease through some changes in the Clinical Practice Guide and the incorporation of a manual with new procedures. According to data from the entity, Ecuador ranks sixth in the […]
Cristina Coello/redaccionmedica.ec The country has not had cases of urban rabies transmitted by dogs and cats since 1996. For this reason Carlos Guevara Molina , National Director of Prevention and Control Strategies of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), has called on health personnel to promote The vaccination of these animals and prevent that disease. […]
Jonathan Veletanga. Quito redaccionmedica.ec reported the Global Action Fund for Fungi Infections (GAFFI) has carried out an estimation program to demonstrate country by country the number of people affected by serious fungal diseases worldwide . In this context, 14 of the most affected countries around the world, including Ecuador, have just published their results. Jeannete […]
Seven out of 100,000 Ecuadorians commit suicide A study has revealed with figures how is the situation of this social problem in the country in the last 15 years Diego Mosquera. Quito Seven out of every 100,000 inhabitants commit suicide in Ecuador , so has determined a study conducted by a multidisciplinary and inter-institutional team […]
redaccionmedica.ec (machine translated) reported a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that Ecuador is the eleventh country with the most cases of depression and the tenth for cases of anxiety disorders in Latin America. According to the WHO, Brazil is the country with the highest number of cases of depression in Latin […]
Malaria in Highlands of Ecuador since 1900 – Published April 2012 Historical Review Lauren L. PinaultComments to Author and Fiona F. Hunter Author affiliations: Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada cdc.gov Abstract A recent epidemic of malaria in the highlands of Bolivia and establishment of multiple Anopheles species mosquitoes in the highlands of Ecuador highlights […]
Young women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Ecuador. HUVUDOMRÅDE: Nursing FÖRFATTARE: Evelina Persson & Linnéa Englund HANDLEDARE: Malin Lindroth JÖNKÖPING 2017 01 An empirical study Introduction The absence of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is the greatest health problem among women aged 15 – 44 in developing countries. Gender inequalities, lack […]
martinoticias.commartinoticias.com / In an open letter to the opposition presidential candidates, the Cuban X Movement candidates called for the closure of the agreements signed by the current president Rafael Correa and Raúl Castro. The X-Movement Cuba (MXC), which groups health professionals born on the island and based in Ecuador, asked candidates opposed to the government […]
eluniverso.com reported a total of 62 people were treated at Santa Teresita hospitals in the Santa Rosa district, Arenillas hospital, IESS hospital and Teófilo Dávila de Machala. These people would have inhaled some kind of gas while doing their work in a shrimp packing company in Puerto Jelí, canton Santa Rosa, last Friday. According to […]
loudwire.com reported there’s good news for Grim Reaper vocalist Steve Grimmett, as the singer has been released from a hospital in Ecuador after recently having his leg amputated to combat an aggressive infection. Grimmett spent nearly a month in the hospital, and he’s now checked in with fans to let them know he’ll be returning […]
Mosquitoes ‘more than in other years’ eluniverso.com reported (machine translated)….They hum in the ears, they lie on their arms, they stick on the legs of those who do not wear pants. Pican. They are stuck to the walls or scuffed in the rooms. They are in downtown areas, in the urbanizations of the road to […]
Brazil on high alert as yellow fever threatens major cities theguardian.com reported Health ministry ramps up vaccination campaign but cautions against ‘disinformation’, as disease spreads to areas where it is not normally found Brazil has ramped up an emergency yellow fever vaccination campaign as the worst outbreak in decades spreads towards major population centres, killing […]
IN THE LAST THREE DECADES, NUMBER OF CANCER CASES TRIPLE lahora.com.ec reported About 16% of all deaths in Ecuador occur from cancer. According to the most recent data in 2015, 10,000 people died. This disease is the second leading cause of death behind cardiovascular disease, according to Patricia Cueva, director of Solca’s national tumors registry. […]
Zika Virus, Chikungunya Virus, and Dengue Virus in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Adults with Neurological Manifestations, Guayaquil, Ecuador Citation: Acevedo N, Waggoner J, Rodriguez M, Rivera L, Landivar J, Pinsky B and Zambrano H (2017). Zika Virus, Chikungunya Virus, and Dengue Virus in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Adults with Neurological Manifestations, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Front. Microbiol. 8:42. doi: […]
telesurtv.net The amount represents 8 times the investment under administrations between 2000 and 2006. Ecuador has invested more than US$16 billion in the public health sector during the last 10 years, President Rafael Correa said Thursday. “It’s a very well-invested amount of money,” he said during the inauguration of the Hospital of Sigchos and a […]
zika, dengue and chikungunya concerns andes.info.ec Quito, Jan 10 (ANDES) .- The Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador carries out some prevention actions to protect the population from infectious and viral diseases that are more frequent during the winter season, including influenza and also zika, Dengue and chikungunya, which are transmitted by the mosquito bite […]
Deaths by Suicide in Ecuador: A Quantitative Data Analysis Narcisa Marisol Sarmiento Sarmiento Ana Maribel Paredes Proaño Efstathios Stefos School of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador 2 Proyecto Prometeo, Quito, Ecuador Correspondence: Efstathios Stefos, School of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Faculty of Exact […]
How much are Ecuadorians Willing to Pay to Reduce Maternal Mortality? Results from a Pilot Study on Contingent Valuation ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/María Isabel Roldós, MPA, MA, DrPH,1 Phaedra Corso, PhD,2 and Justin Ingels, PhD2 Abstract Context: There is an established association between the provision of health care services and maternal mortality. In Ecuador, little is known if […]
gringotree.com/Russ Reina Getting Flexible / Hospital Care in Ecuador It really doesn’t matter if you believe you’re fully covered when you find out that if your spouse is to get a blood transfusion, YOU still have to get the blood and pay for it! Be prepared to roll with the punches to get what you […]
22-year-old model dies after cosmetic surgery in Guayaquil extra.ec reported Melanie Montenegro Johanna Robles, a model and actress, 22, had arrived from Quito to Guayaquil on Friday 23 December, with the intention of having cosmetic surgery that did not come out alive. According specified Edwin Montenegro, the girl ‘s father, they received the news of […]
elcomercio.com reported in Ecuador, according to the World Health Organization ( WHO ), these are the leading cause of death. Ischemic heart disease are in first place with a total share of 10.3% of the deaths recorded in 2012. On the other hand, cardiac arrest (also related to cardiovascular problems) correspond to 7.7% of the […]
San Cristobal Galapagos Islands Ecuador eluniverso.com reported that the The Captainship of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno and the Naval Base of San Cristóbal are looking for a Swiss tourist reported missing since Sunday on the island of San Cristobal de Galapagos. The foreigner has been identified as Othmar Lauber, 62. Reyna Luisa Lauber, a relative of […]
Increases leishmaniasis in Manabi cantons eldiario.ec reported The health professional, who works at the local hospital, detailed that it is Leishmaniasis, disease caused by a parasite. He added that in Paján five cases have been diagnosed so far this year; While in 2015 there were only two. The affected patients, he said, are from sectors […]
Antonio Pascale, MD , Adriana Sosa, MD , Cristina Bares, PhD , Alejandra Battocletti, MD , María José Moll, MD , Darío Pose, MD , Amalia Laborde, MD , Hugo González, Lic. in Geol. , Gabriella Feola, MSc annalsofglobalhealth.org Abstract Background Primitive electronic waste (e-waste) recycling creates exposures to several hazardous substances including lead. In […]
annalsofglobalhealth.org/ S. Beache , J.C. Puyana / Perceptions and adherence to the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist in Cuenca, Ecuador 1 Year post-educational intervention Background Surgical safety is an emerging global health priority. The World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist has been shown to be effective in reducing adverse surgical outcomes in this context. […]
Scientists warn of threat to livestock, human health and wildlife conservation in near future. ibtimes.co.uk reported an outbreak of vampire bat rabies is expected to hit parts of South America within the next four years, scientists have warned. Using genetic evidence and models indicating viral spread, researchers have stated countries on the Pacific coast should […]
928 thousand Ecuadorians have opted not to donate their organs eluniverso.com reported in 2016, 600 transplants have been performed It is always a question of time. A race against. First is the time that is expected and wanted to extend so that a life does not die out. Then there is the one that presses, […]
excelsior.com.mx/Laura Toribio reported leprosy is quiet and lurks; add 70 new cases this year Although in recent decades the incidence of this disease has been declining, Mexico has failed to eradicate this evil; ignorance and stigma, the main reasons Leprosy is a disease that could not be completely eliminated in our country. While this bad […]
CDC.GOV – Alert – Level 2, Practice Enhanced Precautions – ECUADOR ZIKA VIRUS Note: This travel notice was updated on October 17, 2016, to include updated guidance for people planning to conceive and guidance to prevent sexual transmission of Zika. Public health officials have reported that mosquitoes in Ecuador are infected with Zika virus and […]
rbth.com reported Russia’s ministry of health plans to expand cooperation with Central and Latin American countries in the area of production of vaccines and build a vaccine plant in Ecuador, Russian Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova said on Oct. 23. “There are such plans. Our colleagues offer options for vaccine production branches in Central America. […]
thedailybeast.com/Nina Strochlic Inside the women’s prison in El Salvador, set on the outskirts of the capital in a dangerous neighborhood called Ilopango, at least 21 women are serving sentences for abortions they say they never had. All of these women claim they are jailed for miscarrying their babies. In the prison’s leafy courtyard, a petite […]
By Karen Catchpole / blogs.wsj.com Oct 5, 2016 10:54 am ET In 2010, Susan Netherton, a U.S. expat who was living near Lake Chapala in Mexico, found herself in a medical emergency. She needed a blood transfusion after a surgery-induced infection, but there was no match in the hospital’s blood bank for her O-negative blood. […]
Epidemiology of Tropical Neglected Diseases in Ecuador in the Last 20 Years Monica Cartelle Gestal,Alina Maria Holban,Santiago Escalante, Marcelo Cevallos Abstract Background journals.plos.org / Tropical and zoonotic diseases are major problems in developing countries like Ecuador. Poorly designed houses, the high proportion of isolated indigenous population and under developed infrastructure represent a fertile environment for […]
Emergency Department of a Rural Hospital in Ecuador Tara Johnson, MD, MPH,* David Gaus, MD, MPH/TM,† and Diego Herrera, MD‡ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ There is a paucity of data studying patients and complaints presenting to emergency departments (EDs) in low- and middle-income countries. The town of Pedro Vicente Maldonado (PVM) is located in the northwestern highlands of […]
gringotree.com/Sara Chaca reported… Ah, beautiful, dreamy, wonderful Ecuador. Amid all the enchanting scenery, wildlife, mountains, beaches and culture to write home about, one might also ask: what’s to be done when “life happens?”, when one’s seemingly “amable” (the Spanish word for “friendly”) Ecuadorian doctor turns a routine procedure into a medical nightmare? As an Ecuadorian […]
laht.com reported quick action can save the life of someone bitten by a poisonous snake, but in some remote areas of Ecuador it can take six to seven hours to get medical attention and that, unfortunately, can lead to amputation and even death. This Andean country, which imports snakebite serums from countries like Costa Rica […]
While you are paid more doctors for a natural delivery that a Caesarean section, doctors promote the latter because they can make more and earn more money. The Universe. Ecuador has an average rate of 41% of caesarean sections, according to the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012 published by the INEC. This type of […]
Quito, Aug 22 Prensa Latina reported The Treaty of Marrakech will benefit over 280 thousand visually disabled persons in Ecuador, playing an important role in tyhe promotion of the pact which should become valid next September 30. Together with Brazil, Paraguay and Mexico, Ecuador was one of the original supporters of the agreement, ratified in […]
Eluniverso.com reported that the British firm, Economist Intelligence Unit has rated 80 countries regarding the quality of care during death. Ecuador was ranked 40th. Accessibility of palliative medicine, environment, human resources and participation were elements of the study. In Latin America there were 15 countries studied. Ecuador ranked 7th after Chile, Costa RIca, Panama, Argentina, […]
The first case of a birth defect linked to the Zika virus has been registered in Guatemala. MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – According to Mejia, a total of 49 Zika cases have been registered in Guatemala in the past three weeks. “We have also detected the first case of microcephaly compatible with Zika,” Carlos Mejia, head of the infectious diseases […]
Many Ecuadorean women have been forced to carry pregnancies that are the product of rape. telesurtv.net reported the Ecuadorian National Assembly received on Thursday a petition asking it to decriminalize abortion in the country. The Bar Association in Quito presented a text in which they ask the assembly to analyze the decriminalization of abortion in […]
BOTCHED TREATMENT CAUSES INFECTION LEADING TO AMPUTATION EXTRA.EC/AFP REPORTED Peru investigates the case of a woman who came to a state hospital for treatment of kidney stones and was discharged with hands and feet amputees due to an infection in the extremities alleged medical malpractice. Shirley Melendez, 25, denounced doctors Guillermo Almenara ESSALUD (social security) […]
dailymail.co.uk reported Zika baby death in Texas: Girl born with microcephaly after her mother traveled to Latin America has died Child was born in Harris County on Tuesday, died shortly after She had microcephaly and shrunken head – birth defects related to Zika 15 babies have been born with Zika in the US, 6 pregnancies […]
Elpais.com reported that 100 new cases detected in the last two weeks a malaria outbreak. 100 new cases have been confirmed in the last two weeks prior to August 6, 2016. The Ministry of Health established epidemiological surveillance along the eastern border with Peru. New infections have been detected in ZamoraChinchipe and Pastaza. Border controls […]
gov.uk Investigations are ongoing after an increase in cases of food and water bug, Cyclospora, associated with travellers returning from Mexico. Public Health England (PHE) is advising people planning on travelling to the Riviera Maya coast in Mexico to be aware of the risk of infection from a food and water bug, Cyclospora. PHE is […]
sponsored post Aging Bravely: Shut Up and Stop Your Whining Paperback – “I see it every day- families in full panic mode because no one had a plan for dealing with an elder parent’s health situation” Will this be you? This book is the first complete how-to guide to aid boomers and their children in […]
Chipipe Villa Your Home Away From Home Assisted Living at its Best in Salinas. Ecuador ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY ABOUT US This might sound a little cliche but the truth is that we are happiest when we feel we are being of benefit or value to others. Let me tell you a little about us and […]
Eluniverso.com reported Ecuador is one of the ten countries in Latin America where still sold paint plomo(lead) according to a report by the AGEPP, a joint cooperative initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Program for Environment Programme (UNEP), which was presented in May and showing the magnitude of the […]
Chikungunya Ecuador Tropical Diseases International Health South America elcolombiano.co/EFE reported aA total of 11,512 dengue cases were recorded in Ecuador, where there are 1,528 confirmed cases of chikungunya, according to reports from the Ministry of Public Health. According to the statistics of that institution, the province of Manabi, on the coast, reported 4,348 dengue cases, […]
pubs.royle.com reported hand surgeons are often called upon to reattach severed parts. Fingers, thumbs, hands, and forearms have all been successfully replanted since the initial reports of arm replantation by Malt and McKhann in 1962 2,3 and thumb replantation by Kamatsu and Tamai in 1968.4 Hand transplantation was a natural extension of this technical procedure […]
eldiario.ecreported a rose 1,106 the number of infected by the virus Zika in Ecuador, according to a report issued today by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), which notes that, in those cases, 73 correspond to pregnant women. Manabi, with 940 cases, four of them imported, is the province most reported infected with the virus, […]
PANAMPOST.com / Orlando Avendaño wrote gaining access to suicide rates in Venezuela is difficult. If you go to a morgue such as that of Bello Monte in Caracas, neither family members nor officials will admit there are any cases in which people ended their lives to escape their circumstances. The last time official numbers detailed […]
outbreaknewstoday.com reported while so much attention has been placed the Zika virus epidemic and to a lesser extent dengue fever in Brazil this year, another virus transmitted by the Aedes mosquito is being reported at a nearly 10 times amount compared to the first five months of the year in 2015. According to a g1.globo.com […]
In temperate countries in the southern hemisphere, influenza activity increased steadily in the last few weeks in South America. WHO.INT reported In temperate South America, influenza-like illness (ILI), acute respiratory infection (ARI) and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) cases continued to increase. Of the respiratory viruses detected, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 predominated. […]
Eluniverso.com reported the Health Minister Margarita Guevara, said Thursday that the country currently has recorded 1,106 cases of the Zika virus, transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito disease. Of that total infected, 73 are pregnant women, representing 6.60%. Guevara said that of those 73 cases, 10 babies have been born and are healthy. The incidence […]
Chagas Disease Has Not Been Controlled in Ecuador Citation: Dumonteil E, Herrera C, Martini L, Grijalva MJ, Guevara AG, Costales JA, et al. (2016) Chagas Disease Has Not Been Controlled in Ecuador. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0158145. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158145 A recent study by Cartelle Gestal et al. reported an analysis of data from the Ministry of Public […]
Abstract fasebj.org/ Currently, the most common micronutrient deficiencies in Ecuador are: Zn, vitamin A, and Fe deficits in all age groups. These deficiencies have been associated with short stature, immune-defects, sight deficiency, anemia, and diminished cognitive performance. Several micronutrient supplementation programs have been implemented with limited impact. These programs have had poor acceptability by the […]
Abstract – ONLY jmh.sagepub.com/ The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS estimates that between 0.3% and 0.7% of adults aged 15 to 49 years were living with HIV in Ecuador in 2013. However, very little is known about the HIV prevalence rate among men who have sex with men (MSM) in that country. A cross-sectional […]
business-standard.com reported a total of 74 people have died of swine flu in Ecuador, so far this year, the Ministry of Public Health said. Besides, the country has also seen 691 cases of swine flu in 2016, the ministry said on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported. This number of victims is still lower than that […]
AMBULANCE IN ROUTE TO San Miguel Arcangel Hospital of San Miguelito PRENSA.COM REPORTED / According to information provided by the Sume 911 itself, the incident occurred at the intersection of Chilibre and motorway on June 13, 2016. On board were three ambulance Emergency Medical staff and a patient injured during a traffic accident, accompanied by […]
ELCOMERCIO.COM reported… They repeated the tests over and over again, until you find the index case. Seven years ago, doctors Alfredo Bruno, Domenica de Mora and other researchers tried to identify the first frame of H1N1 influenza in the country. It was in May 2009. In that year, because of the pandemic, the team conducted […]
Eluniverso.com reported… Thousands of Ecuadorians went Tuesday to the public health centers to be vaccinated against H1N1 flu, which has seen a resurgence in recent weeks and has left 593 infected and 57 dead so far this year. The government imported 300,000 doses of the vaccine. 100,000 doses are slotted for Pichincha province. THe remaining […]