Health centers in Bosnia and Herzegovina will operate on Saturday to help people with symptoms of dengue and chikungunya | Minas Gerais

With the aim of expanding access to the population and ensuring more assistance to users in need of medical assistance, the governorate Belo Horizonte (PBH) On Saturday (22nd), health centers will continue to open. Units will work 7 am to 6 m caring for children and adults, Preferably with symptoms dengue feverAnd chikungunya or respiratory system diseases.

In Minas Gerais, according to data from State Department of Healththis year 227856 Possible cases dengue feverthat it 98454 Certain. entirely, 45 People died from this disease and 108 The deaths are being investigated. actually chikungunya registered 49474 potential cases, 20149 Certain, 13 deaths f 12 The deaths are under investigation.

In addition to this action, PBH also reports this It will continue to provide teleconsultation service to people of all age groups with the same symptoms. Remote consultations can be scheduled from here Saturday (22) the Tuesday (25).

From Saturday (22) to Tuesday (25), A tele-counseling service will be provided to help people of all age groups with symptoms of respiratory diseases, dengue, chikungunya or zika.. Remote consultations can be scheduled for 24 hours 7:30 a.m to 6:30 p.m. Reservations must be made online from 7am on Saturday.

The teleconsultation service was resumed by PBH last Saturday (15) and is a complementary offer to the Municipal Health Network within the PBH plan to confront respiratory diseases and joint viruses. In the first days of service resumption, 133 people were assisted.

All residents of Belo Horizonte registered with health centers in the capital will have access to a method of assistance through a joint platform with Unimed-BH, with the help of doctors from the SUS-BH network.

Counseling should be done by people who have symptoms such as: Cough, sore throat, nasal congestion, runny nose with or without fever, muscle and joint pain, red spots on the skin, headache, pain behind the eyes, nausea and/or vomiting.

The citizen accesses the service, and after confirming the registration on the platform, the patient enters a screen to choose the date and time of the teleconsultation, within the availability of the SUS-BH network. Closer to the specified time, the user will enter the system again with their registration data (CPF and date of birth) and will have access to the video consultation.