Irresponsible and criminal indifference

Monday, August 9, 2010
The imminent danger of a violent proliferation of bubonic and pneumonic plague does not seem to turn on the speed of public officials of the Health of Lima.


As is clear from the undue delay that the doctors treat the capital scenario analysis outbreaks of this disease, the issue is not relevant even though the amount of cases being reported daily in our region.

To date, about 29 have been reported among confirmed cases (12) and those to be confirmed. As the results come, however, our patients continue to pray for a cure, and we, the concerned expectant, unfortunately we only ask that we not hold them off guard.

Prevention, however, is a much more arduous task, especially if, after learning something about the mechanism of infection and contagion, or the etiology of the disease, we understand that this is a pest that attacks first, to disadvantaged populations. Is precisely where the work of education and prophylaxis is complicated greatly. If this reality is compounded by the silence of the Lima laboratory workers, the picture is much more worrisome.

In principle, know the final diagnosis of about 17 difficult patients wishing to undertake any action that doctors, whose primary duty is to save lives. Wandering in uncertainty, contingency plans against the virus that wishes to enter the Regional Health Management, end up stagnating. That is, to be unworkable. If only it were possible to close the eyes, pretending to be a bad dream, dream, of course, "and just wake up! And forget.

But the reality is not necessary so that when least expected, hits us in all its violence and tried to force to react. How much do you actually know of the capital charge required to issue final reports on the analysis of virus samples forwarded to them for over a week? Apparently, they do not know anything about anything, and that is natural. A distance of 557 miles between Trujillo and Lima will also make a dent in the myths of a quasi-fictional integration and national brotherhood.

I say quasi-fictional because you can not understand or justify the delay. Sent analysis are 17 more than a week, so far unsolved. Meanwhile, our patients get worse, the Management of Health is reassuring the public and the press attention to this phenomenon, only records incidents, making votes because we do not see in the coming days with a pathological situation uncontrollable. Praying also because we do not reach, or bubonic plague or his relentless sister pneumonic.

Freedom is a source of pride for the nation in many aspects: cultural, gastronomic, tourist. Go! Even beauty queens, our daughters, we have taken to the delight of the world to honor the globe! The meanness of centralization, however, hold as much as a virus, much more than the benefits, in the fragile national memory