Monkeypox: DGS says that Portugal already has the fundamental measures in place to respond to the outbreak
The Directorate-General for Health) stated that Portugal has existed since MonkeyD as fundamental measures to respond to public health, an outbreak that today led the Health Emergency Organization to decree international health.
“It does not imply much more than what is being done. All measures have been taken today, even without this “Church of Public Health of International Declaration in Voice decided by the DGS for the International Health Organization (WHO), Surto Portugal told Lusa.
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 countries in the world with the highest number by Monkeypox say, terms in which we are not growing in a number that can say that Portugal is one of the countries in the world with the highest number by Monkeypox, which are one of the countries in the world with the highest number by Monkeypox, which they are exponential growth or anything you believe in”, explained her to nothing.
“What we have been seeing is a constant weekly number and even with an increasing 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, “it is not the only way that the health authority can say that Portugal is not in a “huge situation”, since Margarida said that the DGS has been busy, since the beginning, in which it is said that “a situation of alarm” is all the time. decision-making levels, through articulation with community leaders and organizations.
The WHO today declared the Monkeypo outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, the highest level reported of 16,000 cases in 75 countries.
“We have to quickly disclose what is the round of the world, than the director of health met all the criteria of international review of the WHO, Tedrotou Adhanom Gheeyesus, in a health conference, after 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 the pressure for there to be more production by countries – can the world of vaccines and antivirals and for once” these, explained products to the expert of 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 features, as well as the information in the rapidly announced information” unknown” in the face of to the still insufficient data on Monkeypox.