Health authorities plan to deliver nearly 200,000 medicine kits in Cochabamba. | Photo: minsalud.gob.bo

La Paz, January 29 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza, report that medical brigades have been sent to Cochabamba in order to face the fourth wave of COVID-19 that is being experienced in that central city.

Auza said that "professionals of science and conscience, professionals of deep vocation, will go house to house, we will go district by district, we will not give truce to the invisible enemy."

According to the official, 40 rapid response teams will be deployed, which will be made up of 103 doctors and 30 dental medical units, and will be mobile vaccination points, clinics and transportation of the rapid response medical teams.

Through its web site, the Ministry of Health stated that it also plans to deliver about 200,000 medicine kits, including ibuprofen, ivermectin, multivitamins and vitamin C.  The Minister of Health also reported that a similar effort was made in Santa Cruz when it was the epicenter of the pandemic, but in recent weeks there has been a reduction in the number of infections.

In the first week of the year, Cochabamba showed an exponential growth of COVID-19 positive cases, although in the third week of January there was a 7 percent reduction in the number of infections.