Panama health worker vacations cancelled as flu deaths mount
Five of the weekend deaths occurred in the Metropolitan Social Security Hospital (CSS), and one of a child under 11 years in the province of Chiriqui
The boy, who spent ten days confinement in the Hospital José Domingo de Obaldía, David, died from complications arising from influenza.
Gladys Guerrero, Department of Epidemiology, CSS, said all the deaths reported so far in CSS, have occurred in elderly patients with disease risk.
He said that according to statistics from the CSS for the same period in 2009 were 50 000 cases of people with flu, while this year the figure has increased by 3000 patients.
From the second week of June, cases increased considerably, so the CSS decided to extend its opening hours in all their units he said.
Healthclinics have been working through weekends on a country wide vaccination program
