| | |  Health & Beauty | August 2009 
H1N1 Flu Tests to be Done in Local Lab
 Rumbo de Mexico
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August 27, 2009
| | Nayarit Governor Ney González Sánchez | |
Xalisco - Nayarit will no longer depend on laboratories in Canada or Mexico City to confirm suspected cases of H1N1 influenza, because it will have its own lab to carry out such testing beginning in September.
"In the State Public Health Laboratory we have the equipment to determine as quickly as possible whether a patient has influenza," said Nayarit Governor Ney González Sánchez. "If it is influenza, we can determine what type it is, to know how to deal with the illness and save the patient's life."
Nayarit is also taking sanitary measures to prevent an outbreak of influenza or dengue fever.
The governor spoke to students and teachers at the Technical Secondary School Number 2 in Xalisco, reminding them that as winter approaches, the influenza may reappear.
He addressed rumors that the influenza was a fiction of the federal government, politicians, and the media. He asked, "If the flu was an invention, why did so many people die? In Nayarit two people died: a woman in Tepic and a girl in Bucerías. For them it wasn't made-up, it wasn't a lie."
González reminded students that controlling the flu is a matter of washing hands frequently, not touching their eyes, nose and mouth with dirty hands, and if they sneeze to cover their mouths with the inside of their elbow.
In addition to addressing health concerns with the children, he spoke of the value of education. He talked about the obstacles many local children have to overcome to get an education. Many of them have to travel long distances, leave their parents, and live in a different place with a different lifestyle, even with a different climate.
He asked the students, "Is this effort 'just because'? Is it just because you have to? Education opens a new path in your life. Take advantage of your schooling, education is the master key, it opens all doors in life."
González spoke about the vicious cycle of poverty, and told children that they won't escape poverty by getting into drugs.
He said, "Neither the person selling nor the person taking drugs is rich. Nobody who has to live in hiding, who experiences danger every day, can say that they are rich. And people who have to take drugs to be happy, to escape from what is happening in the world, they are not rich either."
Education, not drugs, is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty governor said. |
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