More than 3,600 people have been affected by the virus of which 329 women who are pregnant have symptoms and 189 have been diagnosed by the National Institute of Health.

Special monitoring a possible case of secondary microcephaly by zika in a woman who is in the sixth month of pregnancy, provide the health authorities of Tolima.

Sandra Liliana Torres, secretary of health of the region indicated that the established protocols were activated to provide priority attention and also notified the National Institute of Health.

An interdisciplinary team of doctors, epidemiologists and psychologists will monitor the biopsychosocial conditions of the pregnant mother.

The numbers

Zika 3,635 cases have been recorded in Tolima of which 329 women who are pregnant, have symptoms of the disease which is transmitted by the aedes aegypti vector.

Ibagué

According to the report of the health authorities to date 918 people have been diagnosed with the virus. RCN Radio learned that of the 189 pregnant women who have zika, 60 percent are below 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Torres added that Chaparral, Espinal, Flanders and Melgar also been considered hyper endemic localities by the proliferation of mosquito that carries.

recommendations

Intensify the elimination of vector breeding sites through washing and brushing pools and water tanks and the collection and disposal of unusable items in homes.

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