“This year the disease has advanced and we are concerned because not even in the worst moment of Covid-19, have we had the number of children hospitalized as now for Influenza A,” said Dr. Emilio Galdeano, head of Children’s Infectious Diseases at Rawson Hospital. , in dialogue with Radio Sarmiento.
Later, he highlighted that there are 12 pediatric patients hospitalized in the capital’s hospital. “What is mainly worrying is that the boys have comorbidities,” he said, adding that they are oncoematological children, with congenital heart disease, diabetics, obese and with rheumatic diseases, among other pathologies.
Asked regarding the points to take into account to take him to the Guard, the expert indicated that attention must be paid to the child’s difficulty breathing. “Surely you need oxygen due to the picture you present,” he expanded.