Disability Research in Progress in Nicaragua
MANAGUA - The research on disability
develop by the Cuban-Nicaraguan medical
brigade Todo con Voz is getting progress
today and will begin working in this capital
on January 4, reported the health Ministry (MINSA)
Thursday.
The group of specialists concluded the
research in Chinandega department, at about
93 miles northwestern Managua after
finishing the same work in Masaya and
Matagalpa, since their arrival to this
country in October this year.
Preliminary figures showed evaluation of
over 10,000 people in that area of the
country which figure put them close to
40,000 in the three departments visited.
MINSA data showed that the team visited
8,923 houses, analyzed 6,383 disabled cases,
and provided 13,445 specialized
consultations and 9,396 general
consultations to their families.
The group from the Prevention Diseases area
and the Poder Ciudadano that is coming along
the Todos con Voz Brigade developed an
important work resulting in the destruction
of 1,774 breeding grounds for mosquito and
delivered 9,225 talks on dengue, malaria and
preventive diseases.
The research will start in Managua on
January 4 in Tipitapa and San Francisco
Libre municipalities where the authorities,
Civil Defense, National Police, among other
institutions, are giving the final touches
to provide a successful end.
The specialists will visit each
municipalities for one month and a half in
which time they will visit each house to
examine those people with any type of
physical or psychical disability.
This is the most important activity in 2010
facing the impact it will generate in the
society to solve the economic and health
problems they will find within the
communities, emphasized the doctor.
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