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Mozambique: MISAU reviews hospitalisation criteria for Covid-19 patients – Noticias
2:50 CAT | 18 Jun 2020
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The Ministry of Health (MISAU) is updating its criteria for the hospitalisation and institutional isolation of patients diagnosed with Covid-19, Noticias reports today.
Sérgio Chicumbe, director of surveys at the National Institute of Health (INS), said that a team was working on establishing appropriate criteria for hospitalisation of at-risk patients, namely children, the elderly and people with other pathologies.
“As has been said, all institutional internment is very expensive, and let us not forget that we are a country with limited resources. Therefore, all the criteria under review must take issues of cost and effectiveness into account,” he said.
Mozambique has registered four Covid-19 deaths, three in isolation at home, and of patients with only mild to moderate symptoms.
In a regular update on the epidemiological situation in the country, Chicumbe noted that the existence of basic hygiene conditions, including access to water and sanitation, are critical for reducing and cutting transmission chains.
Between Tuesday and yesterday, the country registered 13 new Covid-19 infections, bringing the cumulative total to 651, of which 588 are locally transmitted and the remaining 63 imported.
Of the new cases, all are national, nine resulting from the screening of contacts of infected patients and four from active surveillance in health units.
The national director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, revealed at the press conference that the positive cases are from among 751 samples sent to the virology laboratory of the National Institute of Health (INS). The reported cases are in isolation and the process of mapping their contacts is ongoing.
One case is a child aged 5-14 years old, two are teenagers and young people, six are aged 25-34 years old, two are between 35 and 44 years old, and the other two between 45 and 64 years of age.
Marlene revealed that Mozambique currently has eight patients hospitalised with Covid-19 in the provinces of Nampula, Sofala and the city of Maputo. Of these, one is in a serious condition and seven have mild to moderate symptoms and are making satisfactory progress.
Marlene stressed that the detection of new transmission chains and the existence of cases for which the transmission chain is not yet known demand the adoption of exceptional measures to protect human life and public health.
Source: Noticias
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