After Hurricane Irma has passed, the cleaning in progress should prevent epidemics ...
The head of health operations at the Prefecture of Saint-Martin wanted to reassure the state of health on the island, informing that "no case of epidemic had been reported". More than two weeks after Hurricane Irma, the drinking water network has still not been restored.
“The practitioners who have opened their medical offices have the obligation to transmit to us any pathology that could be epidemiological. Today we have no case that has been reported, "said Sergio Albarello, coordinator of health operations in the area, during a press briefing with the prefect of Guadeloupe Eric Maire. "We do not have an identified epidemiological risk today," he said, adding that the state services were cleaning up areas where rats could proliferate, such as ditches, and were proceeding with the elimination of dead animals.
"Regarding mosquitoes, in the area where we are currently, we are not on carriers vectors from an epidemiological point of view," added Sergio Albarello.
Asked about the hypothesis of a drug shortage, Sergio Albarello was reassuring: “Currently, we have the useful quantities of drugs on the territory for conventional treatment of the population. "
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