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I am a medical specialist in respiratory infirmities and in intensive therapy. Presently in the National Institutes of Health we are living a very severe emergency due to the reality of the flu infection. Every time more patients are admitted in the Intensive Care Unit, nevertheless, in spite of the heroic efforts of all the personnel (doctors, nurses, specialists, etc.) The patients keep dying with nothing to be done about it. The truth is that the anti-viral treatments are not having the hoped-for effect in spite of elevated doses. There is a great fear among the personnel, the possibility of contagion is very high given the strong virulence of the virus. Chaos is starting to rein in the units of attention of the hospitals Manuel Gea Gonzalez, INCAN, INER, INP, etc., and we dont know what to do. Personnel are starting to absent themselves and many are opting for retirement or are requesting vacation. The truth is that the mortality every time is higher. At least in the hospital where I work 3 to 4 patients die daily from this epidemic, and we were already noticing it from more than three weeks ago. So the mortality is much higher than that reported by the authorities who try to hide the true information. To us they have told us that we are not to talk to reporters, that we will be sanctioned if we talk to someone from the press. In the same way they recommend to not put in the death certificates the basic cause of death (INFECTION OF INFLUENZA), it is said that we should note pneumonia, insufficient respiration, or sepsis and not the real cause to hide the exact number of deaths. It is a terrible thing and very scary what we are actually living right now, and we dont know what to do. Every time more patients younger than 20 or 30 years old are dying before our impotence and treatment as health personnel.
I am a medical specialist in respiratory infirmities and in intensive therapy. Presently in the National Institutes of Health we are living a very severe emergency due to the reality of the flu infection. Every time more patients are admitted in the Intensive Care Unit, nevertheless, in spite of the heroic efforts of all the personnel (doctors, nurses, specialists, etc.) The patients keep dying with nothing to be done about it. The truth is that the anti-viral treatments are not having the hoped-for effect in spite of elevated doses. There is a great fear among the personnel, the possibility of contagion is very high given the strong virulence of the virus. Chaos is starting to rein in the units of attention of the hospitals Manuel Gea Gonzalez, INCAN, INER, INP, etc., and we dont know what to do. Personnel are starting to absent themselves and many are opting for retirement or are requesting vacation. The truth is that the mortality every time is higher. At least in the hospital where I work 3 to 4 patients die daily from this epidemic, and we were already noticing it from more than three weeks ago. So the mortality is much higher than that reported by the authorities who try to hide the true information. To us they have told us that we are not to talk to reporters, that we will be sanctioned if we talk to someone from the press. In the same way they recommend to not put in the death certificates the basic cause of death (INFECTION OF INFLUENZA), it is said that we should note pneumonia, insufficient respiration, or sepsis and not the real cause to hide the exact number of deaths. It is a terrible thing and very scary what we are actually living right now, and we dont know what to do. Every time more patients younger than 20 or 30 years old are dying before our impotence and treatment as health personnel.
