📋 Tender Overview
A total of 2,096 health supervisors and inspectors from nine regions of the country were trained in the use of the Dengue App mobile application, which aims to systematize real-time information on surveillance, larval control, and disease awareness activities. population, developed in the fight against the mosquito Aedes aegypti, transmitter of the dengue disease.
To develop the training, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) deployed technical teams from the General Directorate of Environmental Health and Food Safety (Digesa) and the National Center for Epidemiology, Prevention and Disease Control (CDC Peru) to the regions of Piura, La Libertad, Ancash, Ica, Callao, San Martin, Lima, Junin, Cajamarca, Amazonas, Tumbes, Lambayeque and the Directorates of Integrated Health Networks (Diris) of Metropolitan Lima. It should be noted that the application will be launched throughout the national territory.
The use of the application will allow us to strengthen the geographical analysis of closed, reluctant homes with the presence of mosquito breeding sites, and to implement awareness-raising strategies in a timely manner.
The Health sector promotes the coordination, work and involvement of the different regional, provincial and district governments, who also promote, in the community, the different preventive measures to avoid the reproduction of the mosquito and transmission of the disease.
RECOMMENDATIONS
To prevent the mosquito from reproducing in the home, the Minsa recommends eliminating mosquito breeding sites, such as tanks, buckets, aquatic plants, pet water fountains, swimming pools, water bases that are behind refrigerators, bases of vases, bottles, tires, cans, toys and even metal plates or eggshells.
The symptoms of dengue are high fever, headache, eye pain, rash, muscle and joint pain. While the warning signs are intense and sustained abdominal pain, persistent vomiting, bleeding of the mucous membranes, nose and gums, drowsiness or irritability and weakness.
Faced with these symptoms and warning signs, the Minsa urges not to self-medicate, drink plenty of fluids and go to the nearest health facility to start timely treatment.
