The inhabitants of Las Malvinas II, a low-income sector belonging to Villa Mella, Santo Domingo Norte, call on the health authorities to carry out massive tests of covid-19 after five cases have been confirmed and one had been suspected, an emergency that adds to dengue and malaria threats in this town near the Isabela River.
Although surely wishes, such as drinking water, electricity and pavement of the streets are partially resolved, the coronavirus represents a threat of physical aptitude for their poor population because many live in low neighborhoods and sometimes do not use a mask in the Sector, in addition to the fact that there are other people with high blood pressure and diabetes, adding children.
A month ago, the first case of Covid-19 reported that, along with another 4 inflamed later, the isolation of the house has ended and has already been negative in the detection tests, the last one did last week. However, there is still concern among the members of the network that the Coronavirus will persist locally.
“We are urged that they come to do the tests in Las Malvinas II because in the first case there was much confusion over whether the patient had it or not and in the end he was positive and lived with his wife and a child, who had to be quarantined,” says the president of the Board of Neighbors, Ana Sobeida Familia.
This leader of the Network regrets that in the intervention carried out through the Ministry of Public Health 3 weeks ago in many sectors of Grand Santo Domingo, adding Villa Mella, Las Malvinas II has taken into account.
As for malaria and dengue fever, although they are not unusual diseases in this area, the entire emergency state due to COVID-19, only a malaria case and none of the dengue fever were reported. Family evaluates that government diligence is correct with respect to these two diseases transmitted by mosquitoes.
In the same way, the president of the Board of Neighbors appreciates that the program of the House of Representatives benefited the maximum citizens of the sector the two months that the containment measures lasted to avoid the propagation of the coronavirus.
Precarious conditions.
A giant component of the 1,300 areas in the Falklands II, in componenticular those closest to the Isabela River, do not seem to meet situations for the area of a COVID-19 patient because their limited area allows other people navigating.
Gregoria Sepúlveda Martínez, a 66-year-old woman who lost the mobility of her legs in 2003 due to a virus, lives in one of those houses with 3 young orphans through their father and mother.
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