Lima, Peru | Sunday 08 November 2009 00:47 | | |

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Currently, cardiovascular conditions are the leading cause among the adult population in countries like Peru, which registers daily an average of three heart attacks, according to a study conducted by the Peruvian Society of Cardiology.
A new list of another ten Peruvians citizens killed by the AH1N1 virus was released today by Peru's Health Ministry, which statistics show now a total of 143 victims of the disease.
Peru's Health Ministry (MINSA) issued an statement confirming 12 more deaths due to AHN1 influenza; four in Lima, three in Callao, two in Cusco, one in Lambayeque, one in Piura and one in Arequipa.
The lack of volunteer tissue or organ donors causes two patients die in Peru every day, while they are on the waiting list for a transplant, according to Carlos Carvallo, Director of the Peru's National Program of Organs and Tissue Transplant from Essalud (the public social security health system).
Julio Valdivia Herrera, the coordinator of the Sanitary Strategy of Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV – AIDS at Goyeneche Hospital (in Arequipa), reported that the number of confirmed HIV – AIDS cases have increased by 58%.
Despite the general expectations that the warmer temperatures of the spring will help to reduce the number of AH1N1 cases, the virus is still attacking, and the death toll has risen to 109, according to official figures from Peru's Health Ministry (Minsa).
A woman who had been diagnosed with the AH1N1 strain of flu a week ago, died yesterday due to pneumonia; she had been refused admittion to three hospitals in El Santa, a province of the Ancash region.
Peru's Deputy Minister of Health, Melitón Arce, announced that some 8,000 doses of the new vaccine against AH1N1 influenza will arrive in Peru in October, thanks to the support from the World's Health Organization (WHO), which bought them to the Chinese pharmaceutical Sinovac Biotec.
Peru's Health Ministry, Óscar Ugarte, told the press that his portfolio has allocated a S/. 300 million soles (approx. US $ 300 million dollars) to purchase several different types of vaccines for next year's immunization campaign.
Puno's Regional Directorate of Health (Diresa -Puno) has reported 17 deaths due to tuberculosis (TBC) in this region during the first semester of 2009, as well as 202 confirmed cases, 186 of wich are patients who have just contracted the disease for the first time.
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