Elcomercial.com.ar reported the Minister of Health for Buenos Aires is urging residents to take measures to reduce the risk of dengue fever. He indicated that March is susceptible to the disease because of the heat, humidity and rain. The minister recommended to empty or cover pools and to eliminate the accumulation of water.
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During the first seven weeks of 2011, Táchira State health authorities have confirmed 136 cases of dengue, 114 classic and 22 hemorrhagic type. Read Article
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he center will have 20 women donors who provide 30 liters of milk per month to save the lives of premature babies. The collection station is located in San Juan de Lurigancho.On Thursday opened the first center of milk collection in Peru, located in the local Association of Children Workshop in San Juan de Lurigancho. […]
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“Breast milk is a food that becomes the best defense for a premature baby the best food and talking about nutrients,” emphasized Dr. Yuli Sanchez, coordinator of the Breastfeeding Committee of the Institute of Child Health. Speaking to RPP Noticias, the expert explained that this is reflected in the large number of these children who […]
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An Argentine government proposal to crack down on clients benefiting from the trafficking of persons for the purposes of sexual exploitation has unleashed a heated debate between feminist organisations that support the idea and sex workers who are opposed to it. Read Article
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A protestor held out a handful of metal dust, part of the “silvery rain” falling that day in Santa Cruz, a low-income neighbourhood on the west side of this Brazilian city, as proof of the environmental nightmare affecting the area ever since a German steel plant opened there. Read Article
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Brazil recorded 999,688 cases of dengue in 2010, more than triple of last year cases, while deaths totaled 572, more than double in 2009, according to figures released Monday. Preliminary statistics on the disease in 2010 show that the southeast was the worst hit, with 473,994 cases, compared with 106,942 in 2009, followed by the […]
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The Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) – the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights – has extended the deadline for Costa Rica to approve the law allowing of in-vitro fertilization. The new deadline is May 31, confirmed Costa Rica’s vice-chancellor, Roberto Roverssi. Read Article
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Ines Elena Jimenez an epidemiologist reported to Caracol Radio that there has been an almost 35 percent increase in AIDS cases among housewives in the Department of Quindío. The blame is placed on husbands who continue to live promiscious lifestyles. Most of the women learn they are carrying the virus while they are pregnant. Health […]
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She has no legal training, and doesn’t speak the Spanish that dominates government in Quito but indigenous villager Maria Aguinda helped bring a landmark judgment against US oil giant Chevron for polluting the rain forest she calls home. Read Article
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As more and more people are learning the many benefits of traveling to Costa Rica for dental and healthcare, Costa Rican Medical Care continues to lead the way as a medical tourism provider. Using the internationally accredited (and patient-centered) providers in Costa Rica offers savings of 30% – 70% over U.S. prices. Read Article
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The anti-tobacco legislation applied in Panama last year, which increased the price of cigarettes, had led to an increase in smuggling of tobacco products from Costa Rica. Read Article
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So far in 2011 one person has drowned every two days in Costa Rica. Protective measures do not seem to have worked at preventing deaths. Many of the deaths so far this year have been in rivers and most victims are under 40. Source: monumental.co.cr
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PepsiCo has formed partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a multilateral provider of development financing, to drive social and economic growth in 26 countries across the Latin America and the Caribbean. Read Article
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A 2 000 500 totals the number of farmers have shifted from Ituango, Valdivia, and those sidewalks Puerto Antioquia, Cauca and the Guaimaro, towards the town of Taraza, Antioquia, rejecting the spraying of illicit crops. The authorities warn that the coming hours the displaced farmers would arrive and that the situation could get worse, because […]
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German conglomerate Bayer AG (BAYRY, BAYN.XE) is expecting Brazil’s pharmaceutical industry to grow to $27 billion by 2015 from $ 15 billion in 2008, the company said Tuesday in a press release. Read Article
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The Belizean Public Health Ministry will train 170 nurses coming from rural zones of Belize, with the necessary techniques to diagnose and take care of patients with psychiatric problems in their respective communities. Claudina Cayetano, from the Belizean Public Health Ministry, said the course will be developed starting February 24, up to May 27 at […]
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there are any men left who still believe that women are the weaker sex, it is long past time for them to think again. With respect to that most essential proof of robustness – the power to stay alive – women are tougher than men from birth through to extreme old age. In Costa Rica, […]
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The Senate today became a project by the Act which provides that the sale of so-called drug counter, such as antacids, digestive and analgesics, among other products, must be dispensed only at pharmacies and not in supermarkets, kiosks and stores. The new law repeals the Decree 2284 of 1991, which had enabled the sale of […]
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It’s official. Honduras has joined the long list of countries in the world to ban smoking in enclosed spaces to avoid the loss of nonsmokers. The aim is to reduce the consumption of tobacco in which each year is spent lempiras 4,500 million (238 million dollars) throughout the state, which causes the increase of poverty […]
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Despite years of strong economic growth, record harvests and massive social assistance programmes, there are still places in Argentina untouched by the boom, where child malnutrition has even claimed lives. Hunger and malnutrition affect 53 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, including nearly nine million children under five, according to United Nations statistics. […]
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Domestic imports of fructose (sugar substitute), mainly by soft drink bottlers, recorded an average growth of 144% over the past seven years, data show Tariff Information System of the Ministry of Economy. In 2010 imports of fructose corn syrup sweetener, they were 132% higher than in 2009. Read Article
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A group of environmentalists have deployed actions against the use of pesticides in Costa Rica, with publicity events in the local agricultural (famers) markets in Zaporta and Hatillo, held this Sunday. According to studies by the Regional de Estudios en Sustancias Tóxicas (IRET) – Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances, shows that the use of […]
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Officials said they have noticed a spike in intestinal-related health issues that are being blamed on the water crisis in the Panama City area that resulted in many areas going without water for up to two months. Epidemiological reports from the Ministry of Health show that there were 113 more cases of severe diarrhea in […]
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The government of Venezuela has said that it had contained a cholera outbreak that at its peak sickened hundreds of its citizens, who caught the disease at a wedding in the Dominican Republic. Read Article
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One of the potential impacts of climate change that arouses most concern is an increase in diseases transmitted by tropical insects, like Chagas’ disease, Argentina’s main endemic illness. However, while they are aware of shifting climate zones, experts consider the biggest threat of expansion of Chagas’ disease to arise not from global warming, but from […]
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Guatemala has the highest rate of chronic malnutrition among children in Latin America, and the health consequences continue on through adulthood. Read Article
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In remote villages of Ecuador, scientists have found a population that may hold clues to fighting diabetes and cancer – people with a type of dwarfism who almost never get those diseases. It turns out that a gene mutation that stunts their growth also may block cell changes that lead to these diseases of ageing. […]
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The mystery surrounding the deaths of two men of foreign origin that fell into two different sites in the town of Palmyra, but so far have determined the cause of death. The first case became known to the 12:00 noon when a man got out with two suitcases from a taxi at the Calle 34 […]
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The meeting “A new challenge: new opportunities for research collaboration against dengue”, sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), brings together specialists to Friday across the continent in San Juan. The aim is to exchange information and identify priorities in the fight against disease transmitted by aedes aegypti mosquito, which each year affects about […]
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Bolivia will tap central-bank reserves to boost agricultural production and stockpile food, joining countries from Africa to Asia in a bid to avoid a looming global “crisis,” Finance Minister Luis Arce said. Rising food prices pushed tens of millions of people into extreme poverty last year and are reaching “dangerous levels” in some countries, World […]
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A recent study by the Ministerio de Salud (Health ministry) reveals that Costa Ricans have not stopped having sex, but what they have forgotten is to use a condom to protect against sexually transmitted diseases. According to the Encuesta Nacional de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva (survey) by ministerio de Salud, up to 70% of Costa […]
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The number of people who have died in Haiti from cholera has risen to 4,452 since the epidemic was detected in mid-October. The total of deaths was revealed by the Ministry of Public Health, according to a report on figures as of February 3. Read Article
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AIDS patients at Santo Tomás Hospital are reporting that there is a shortage of drugs such as efavirenz and avacavir, which are key components to combating the effects of the disease. Read Article
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Argentina’s strict abortion laws prohibit terminations except when the life or health of the pregnant woman is in danger or if the pregnancy results from the rape of a mentally disabled woman. The government has rolled out national contraceptive campaigns, but despite this there are still up to 500,000 clandestine abortions in every year. Read […]
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Former Quito Military Hospital doctor and nurse Andrea Merizalde and Elsa Gueva Montesdeoca were tried in absentia by the Pinchincha Fifth Tribunal and given four-year sentences to be served at a Quito women’s prison, for the manslaughter of Andrea Saá Toro. According to the sentence, Saá Toro checked in to the hospital on 28th May […]
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An Ecuadorean judge ruled Monday in an epic environmental case that Chevron Corp. was responsible for oil drilling contamination in a wide swath of Ecuador’s northern jungle and ordered the oil giant to pay $8.6 billion in damages and cleanup costs. The amount was far below the $27.3 billion recommended by a court-appointed expert but […]
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A 45 year old woman broke down in Carlos Paz at the weekend and died for lack of medical care. Gladys Mendoza, in the locality of Hurlingham, was vacationing with her sisters and brother. This is the second case in just one week in the main resort of Córdoba. Last week died in a similar […]
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Water, produced by floods and problems in treatment plants is exceeded Chilibre and officials said the health ministry said the water is potable and is not health DANIDA in several neighborhoods of the capital, sediment, yellow and other individuals produce doubt and fear. The online newspaper of Panama received complaints and reports of Cerro Viento, […]
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Juan Carlos Schrader Iñapi of Tarapoto, Peru, took a drink of Inca Kola and discovered when drinking the soft drink that there was a piece of black solid material in the bottle. Read Article ——————————– Notes: 1. Inca Kola is one of the most famous soft drinks in Peru. 2. No matter where you are […]
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YELLOW FEVER – SOUTH AMERICA: PERU (SAN MARTIN) SUSPECTED Date: Mon 7 Feb 2011 Source: Diario Voces [in Spanish, trans. Mod.TY, edited] A 20 year old man, from Ayabaca, Piura, who resided in the Aguajal sector of the village of Nuevo Jaen in the Campanilla district [Mariscal Caceres province, San Martin region], was moved urgently […]
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Dengue illness, the most common mosquito-borne viral disease in the world, has expanded from its Southeast Asian origins and is resurgent in countries such as Argentina, Chile and the continental United States.The economic burden of dengue (pronounced DENgee) in the Western Hemisphere, according to a new study from Brandeis University researchers published today in the […]
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Argentine officials admitted deaths due to malnutrition among the country’s poor of indigenous Latin American people and promised government action to minimize the problem. Read Article
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The Venezuelan Network of Medical Scientific Societies said that if the 452 people who attended a wedding in the Dominican Republic last January 22 and who imported cholera from the Caribbean island are not identified and given medical treatment, epidemiological surveillance of cholera will be inefficient. Read Article
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The trial of staff at the Havana Psychiatric Hospital for the deaths of 26 patients who died of cold and neglect revealed a dark chapter in an institution that was once a shining symbol of Cuba’s much lauded health care system, and drew reactions of shock and criticism. Read Article
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Their tanned skin is weathered by years of sun, and their voices preserve traces of accents from different parts of Spain. They are elderly Spanish immigrants who have benefited from social policies both in their home country and in Cuba, which took them in, and their life stories are the subject of a documentary that […]
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Guadalupe Pena’s great grandparents began working with horses when La Hera ranch still lay in fields outside Mexico City. Now it is surrounded by graffiti-covered walls and barred windows but, behind its metal gate, offers hope where hospitals have failed. Read Article
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Based on a report from the Epidemiological Surveillance Head Office, Ministry of Health released on Friday, reported events of cholera in Venezuela already amount to 245. The events include 28 people requiring inpatient treatment and 61, outpatient treatment. A total of 156 people have received prophylactic treatment despite having no symptoms. Read Article
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ACCORDING to the National Commission for Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in their publication “Battling the Hidden Enemy”, it is estimated that 52 834 persons in Barbados have hypertension. Read Article
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The Ministry of Health (Sesau) is a new warning to the public about the increasing number of dengue cases reported in Alagoas. In January this year, were reported 369 dengue cases, while in the same period last year, there were 247 notifications. The superintendent of the Health Surveillance Sesau, Sandra Canuto, recalled that the State, […]
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Due to the endemic dengue affecting the area and has already killed three people, the city of Ciudad del Este declared “health emergency” through Resolution No. 096/2011. This is to intensify work to fight against evil to curb the risks. Read Article
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A private autopsy has confirmed that businesswoman Tricia Seuraj died from haemorrhagic fever. This was disclosed yesterday by a close relative. The relative, who asked not to be identified, said Seuraj’s family retained pathologist Dr Hughvon de Vignes to conduct a private autopsy which confirmed she died as a result of organ failure caused by […]
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Doctors of the School Hospital in the capital of Honduras continue the work stoppage to demand wage increases and other socio-economic demands. The strikers call on health authorities to improve conditions in hospitals, to install new modules in the laboratories and to redistribute working sessions. Read Article
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It is a matter of several years for cancer to become the leading cause of death in the country, up from cardiovascular disease. That’s the conclusion of a recent actuarial study conducted by the Social Security Fund (CCSS) on the incidence of malignant tumors. Read Article
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Federico Lleras Hospital doctors quit after not being paid for four months. Most of the doctors are general practitioners who work in emergency services in a 500 bed hospital in Ibague. Read Article
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Leonor, a Mexican citizen, took part in a 2006 clinical trial of a drug to treat kidney disease, designed by a transnational pharmaceutical company. “A friend of mine who is a nurse told me about the trial and I decided to take part,” Leonor, a 30-year-old saleswoman who has kidney problems, told IPS. “I was […]
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When the price of medicines for treating cancer soared by up to 64 percent in 2010, the Peruvian government set up a watchdog commission that will also monitor prices of drugs for diabetes and HIV/AIDS. The Directorate General of Medicines, Supplies and Drugs (DIGEMID) told IPS that the commission’s functions would be extended to other […]
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After 12-day strike by medical students in the rotating internship, have yet to return to the wards and do not receive appropriate sanctions.The demands on the Health Ministry and the academic authorities of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) state that recipients need rest areas, a place to shower after leaving their shift and […]
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Researchers at the world leading Clodomiro Picado institute in Costa Rica are avidly cultivating venoms, along with hundreds of equally-venomous vipers. Scientists raise the deadly reptiles to harvest their venom, the key ingredient in the massive quantities of life-saving antivenom produced by the institute each year from some 800 snakes. Read Article
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Huancavelica, remains one of the poorest areas of Peru. 42.9 percent of children suffer from malnutrition while 68.3 have anemia. Carlos Torres Ortiz, an orphan who lived with his brother, is one of the many victims who took the disease. He was only seven years and died yesterday have chronic malnutrition and anemia. Malnutrition in […]
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The number of cholera cases has jumped to 111 in Venezuela as more people tested positive after attending a wedding with contaminated food in the Dominican Republic, the country’s health minister said Friday.The patients were all receiving treatment, and 27 were hospitalized, Health Minister Eugenia Sader told the Caracas-based television network Telesur. Read Article
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When her twin girls were born seven weeks early, Azucena Mora Díaz did not have to worry about how she would pay for expensive hospital care, even though her husband has only a low-wage job as a construction worker’s assistant. Read Article
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The death toll from the cholera epidemic in Haiti has topped the 4,000 mark, with health officials citing over 200,000 cases as of January 24. The new figures show that Haitians are still dying from cholera, more than three months after it first appeared in the country. Read Article
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Venezuela’s Health Minister Eugenia Sader confirmed on Thursday 37 cholera chases in the South American country, as well as 12 cases of Venezuelans who are receiving medical attention in Dominican Republic, two in Madrid, one in Mexico and one in Boston. Read Article
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The resurgence of dengue transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquito concerned the municipal authorities and residents, so the community Mariano Roque Alonso decided to declare a health emergency, the mayor said Heriberto Marble, told radio 780 AM. Read Article
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The National Dean Dental College in Peru, warned that 95 percent of the population suffers from dental caries. 10% of the population has lost one or two teeth. According to Miguel Angel Saravia Rojas of the dental college he warned that Peru is facing an oral health crisis that impacts the quality of life for […]
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Heavy rainfalls in Sao Paulo has flooded highways and disrupted traffic, prompting the mayor’s office to issued a warning to the people of the city, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Brazilian officials said hundreds of others were missing. They also mentioned the number of deaths might surpass 1,000 in the coming days. Read Article
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Panama has been experiencing some water issues. The newspaper La Prensa conducted a study and had bottled water from Panama tested by an independent lab. The results show that that five brands tested to have unsafe levels of bacteria. Aqua Sana, Aqua Viva, and Purissima, had higher than what is considered safe levels of bacteria. […]
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Twenty cases of leptospirosis have been detected in the province of Manabi during the first two weeks of 2011. Health officials believe there should not cause alarm but to raise awareness for extreme sanitary measures in their environment, as the disease arises from contact of water with the urine of animals such as rats, horses, […]
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To date health authorities have reported two deaths from the H1N1 virus in Cuenca.
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Governments throughout Latin America are ramping up dengue prevention campaigns after 1.5 million people were infected and over 1,000 people in the region died of the disease in 2010. There have already been deaths from dengue fever this year, the most recent one in Perú, where the deaths are exceeding hospital capacity – and it […]
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Minister of Health Franklin Vergara Friday confirmed the hiring of 22 foreign specialists who will work in four hospitals in the interior of the country. Vergara said the Health Technical Council made a “rigorous” review of the credentials of the specialists, who will begin working in the next two weeks. Read Article
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The Matanza river also known as Riachuelo or little river, defines the southern boundary of Buenos Aires and according to a number of studies it is one of the most polluted places in the world. The area has become a dumping ground for industrial, chemical and household waste.
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According to Beni’s provincial health director, Mauricio Rousseau, of the total 1093 dengue fever cases reported in 2010, over 50 percent were discovered during December. He added that in the first half of January 2011, additional cases of dengue fever infections have been reported in the province. Most of the dengue fever cases have occurred […]
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Three Guatemalan departments are under yellow alert, as a preventive measure in the face of the sustained activity of Fuego Volcano. Sacatepequez, Chimaltenango, and Escuintla keep a wary eye on the evolution in coming days of the colossal, volcano, 3,763 meters above sea level. Read Article
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From January 02 through January 13th, 2011, the Department of Health in Espirito Santo have recorded 548 cases of dengue fever. The state is now on alert. Most outbreaks of dengue fever is found in houses, flower pots, and pools of water. Read Article
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Yesterday in Rio state, more than 250 died in the areas worst flood in its history. The victims were in a single day by deluged with unexpected heavy rains that lashed the mountainous area. The phenomenon also affects Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo. Read Article
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More than 300,000 people in eight municipalities of the Isthmus are at risk of suffering a tragedy such as occurred in San Martín Texmelucan, Puebla, on 18 December last year, because they are seated near pipelines of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), warned the director of Civil Protection State Institute of Oaxaca, Manuel Sánchez Maza. Read Article
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The Government allocated 1,080 million reais for the purchase of drugs, vehicles, sprayers, larvicides, and educational material. Epidemics such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever resurgence due to climate change. The Government of Brazil, at the initiative of President Dilma Rousseff, today launched an ambitious plan to combat the spread of dengue, which involved thirteen […]
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The Ecuadorian healthcare system begins a new stage Tuesday after President Rafael Correa passed an emergency decree to provide it with funds of 406 million USD. The figure, the largest in history for the sector, will be paid out in parts, and the first involves 50 million to hire professionals and fully supply public hospitals […]
Influenza A (H1N1) has claimed 305 deaths in Colombia since the first confirmed case in April 2009, while since that date the analysis performed in patients suspected to have generated positive 4782 this type of virus. The director of the National Institute of Health, Juan Gonzalo Lopez said that during 2010 there were 1,053 confirmed […]
According to SOS Mata Atlantica Foundation, an NGO which works for the protection of the Atlantic Forest, 30 percent of Brazilian water sources have poor quality, an official news agency informed. After analyzing 43 water sources in 12 States and in the Federal District the foundation reported that 25 percent of them have poor quality […]
The intense rains throughout Panama and other parts of Latin America have resulted in million of Panamanians having their water rationed while at the same time they are unable to drink it due to contamination. The water supply in the country is dependent on local lakes and though at their highest levels in December due […]
It’s as inhospitable as climates come for crop cultivation, the dry and rocky soils of Bolivia’s semiarid altiplain. Miguel Choque can see his breath as surveys his fields of quinoa, the Andean “supergrain.” In late March or April, the flowering plants will paint the rugged landscape yellow, green and red. Their diminutive seed, which powered […]
Unprecedented prices of food items will strongly affect the world’s poorest people, and this will raise the risk of protests, calls to ban exports, expropriation of farmlands owned by foreigners and more short-term price increases driven by investors. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said that food prices reached all-time highs […]
At least 2,293 people are on waiting lists for organ transplants. Reiber. Of these, 1 440 correspond to kidney, 800 for corneas, 30 heart, and three for liver. Another 700 people have been assessed, and 20 are children waiting for a kidney transplant, according to figures from the National Organ and Tissue Transplant (ONTOT). Read […]
Ecuador’s legislature has passed a bill that makes organ donations for transplant automatic at death unless a prospective donor has specifically requested otherwise. This information would be included in your documents. The new law includes those age 18 and over. The measure was passed Thursday by a vote of 124-111. The new law is awaiting […]
A 61 year old Spanish tourist who contracted the H1N1 flu virus died on Saturday in Barranquilla, northern Colombia, where he was hospitalized from January 3, reported that health secretary Caribbean city, Humberto Mendoza. It is suspected the case of flu was contracted before entering Colombia. Read Article
During his nearly five years in office, Peruvian President Alan García has earmarked 620.5 million dollars to the “Glass of Milk” Programme (PVL), the backbone of the policies aimed at reducing malnutrition levels in the country. But the results of the nutritional supplement programme are poor. A Ministry of Economy and Finance report seen by […]
The Hotel Barceló Playa Tambor offered to pay medical expenses incurred by customers affected by diarrhea and vomiting outbreak detected in mid-December. In this way, intended to compensate those who paid for private care and bought medicines to recover. Doris Falconer, spokeswoman for the Grupo Barcelo in Costa Rica, said that people are able to […]
The number of people seeking relief from flu symptoms have increased substantially over the last several days at hospitals in Guayauqil. Authorities stated that there have been no confirmed cases of H1N1 virus in Guayaquil. In Quito there have been confirmed 35 cases of H1N1. Also, in Guayaquil there has been one recent case of […]
Edgard Walters, who belongs to the Association of Disabled and Active Divers of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, has been in a wheelchair since 2003, when he made his last dive for lobster in the waters of the Caribbean. Read Article
The head of the Regional Health Department of Loreto, Carlos del Aguila CalAmp announced the start of the fumigation to prevent the spread of malaria and dengue fever in various parts of the city of Iquitos. The report indicated they have seen an increase of malaria in Iquitos. Read Article
With life expectancy increasing in Latin America, age-related disease has become a pressing public health concern. Results of an epidemiological study conducted by researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University and the Corporacion Ecuatoriana de Biotecnologia showed that the metabolic syndrome, a condition that increases […]
Twelve patients are under medical observation to rule out infection acquired after the emergency room where they were, in the Heredia Hospital was flooded with sewage on Sunday. The deputy medical director of St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, Johnny Alfaro Morales, reported that these people are doing exams and studies of bacteremia for the presence […]
The Ministry of Health decided yesterday to reopen the Hotel Barceló Playa Tambor, closed since 20 December, an outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting that sickened more than 200 guests. The lifting of the closure seals made this Monday, said Health Minister Maria Luisa Avila. The decision was taken after receiving the report of Carlos Venegas, […]
A young person died as a consequence of having contracted [a] hantavirus [infection], which he acquired in the Quilmes area, where he lived and collected food and bottles at the municipal incinerator. The disease [virus] is common in rats, which eliminate the bacteria [sic; virus] in its urine, which hit the man. This time, the […]
The first DNA laboratory opened in late May 2010, work on the third floor of Building 9 October the Attorney General’s Office in Quito. The mission of this department is to contribute with input and scientific value of genetic testing to clarify such cases of forensic and biological ties. It has also become one of […]
About 10 percent of Zacatecas population suffers from depression in different parts of their lives, said Victor Manuel Aguilar Soria, Director of Health Hospital Mental Health Services Zacatecas (SSZ). According to the records of the department, the percentage of population suffers from mental illness at some point in their lives, among the most common are […]