DGS reveals that Portugal has already implemented fundamental measures to respond to the outbreak – Sociedade
The Directorate-General for Health) stated that Portugal already considered the World OrganizationD as fundamental measures to respond to Monkeypox, an outbreak that led this Saturday to declare an international public health emergency.
“It doesn’t imply much of what is most often done. All measures have been taken, even without this declaration” of a public health emergency of international concern decided today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the spokeswoman told Lusa. of the DGS for the outbreak in Portugal.
According to Margarida Tava at the national level, “they are already responding to the outbreak that emerged on May 3, with laboratory confirmation of the first cases, and which, since then, have resulted in 588 people.
The most numbered countries in the world by Monkeypox can say, terms that are not growth numbers that can say that Portugal is one of the most numbered countries in the world by Monkeypox, which are not growth numbers, which are exponential growth or anything that is believed”,
“What we have been seeing is a constant weekly number and even with a downward trend”, highlighted Margarida Tavares, who is also the director of the National Program for Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Infection at the DGS.
Despite this evolution, “the health authority is not allowed, let’s say that Portugal is not huge, as long as Margarida said that the DGS has been committed from the beginning, in which it allowed Portugal not to be, as long as Margarida separates them” at all levels decision-making, through articulation with community leaders and organizations.
The WHO this Saturday declared the Monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international alert, the highest level of international alert, when more than 16,000 cases were reported in 75 countries.
“We have to quickly disclose how far around the world the director of health met all international security criteria,” Adhanom Gheeyesus said at a health conference after the international press. the meeting of the Emergency Committee that evaluated the disease in the world.
Margarida Tavares, this declaration is important to strengthen research and investment by countries in means of prevention and treatment of Monkeypox on a global scale, in the case of vaccines and antivirals, in case they are made available to the.
“This level of alert that the world is now obliged to – because some rights, but it will also increase pressure for there to be more production in countries – can the world of vaccines and antivirals and for once” expert from the DGS.
As he said, the decision of the director-general of the world organization also allows for “greater attention and more assertive WHO coordination” between the various countries so that there is a cross-border response to Monkeypox, taking into account that a health event of this nature can have business in economic activity, mobility and traffic between countries.
The Emergency Committee for Monkeypox, which met on Thursday to assess the evolution of the outbreak, did not reach a consensus, but the WHO’s assessment is that the risk is second to moderate global level, except in Europe , where it is considered high.
The general record explained that its decision of public emergency of public emergency, at the international level even in countries of which it was based, was defined quickly as “changed at the global level of fevers, as well as the information in which the virus was defined quickly as “changed the global level of features, as well as the information defined as “unknowns” given the still insufficient data on Monkeypox.