The Portuguese expert, Camal Mansinho defended today in Praia, Cape Verde that must prepare for the future with caution and realism, according to circumstances and contingencies that diseases such as dengue lead its spread.

Camal Mansinho, infectious disease specialist and director of Bureau of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Egas Moniz, Portugal, now believes that the most immediate work in combating the epidemic of dengue fever is nearing completion.


However, alert to the "tremendous work" to do in the future in "all areas" when it is in the process of evaluating an intervention during an outbreak.


For the moment the epidemic in the country, Camal Mansinho states that the emerging trend is a "sustained downturn" in the number of cases seeking health facilities, which will address some of the tests that the Ministry of Health is doing and will continue to do daily.


"Now the details of reading more conceptual than it is this epidemic will not be hot, because we have to be capable of distancing a little," he warned.


Asked about his stay in Cape Verde at the peak of the dengue epidemic, the expert stressed that the most memorable was the contact with fellow Cape Verdeans who sought, in a very difficult time, give everything they had and had not, in terms of their abilities to meet the immense need.


"An epidemic is even this, is to bring home the responsiveness of health structures, but also an epidemic is to be able to respond in accordance with the requirements of the community are proposing," he maintained.


So says lead Cape Verde's experiences, from the point of view of intervention in an epidemic situation, were a source of learning very important.


"I felt a huge effort and I think that the moment I feel labor in debt, has brought a little of my experience and my knowledge and I carry a handful of experiences and experiments, some of them unique, in terms of intervention in an epidemic situation, "he said