The Secretariat of Health of Chihuahua, Mexico reported that they have performed 138,069 attentions through "Salud Digital Chihuahua" mobile app, which offers monitoring and registration of COVID-19 cases in the region, and that they have provided services to more than 138,000 people.
The medical director of the Northern Zone of the Secretariat of Health, Arturo Valenzuela, reported that they have more than 138 thousand registered users in the mobile application. Through the application, which was launched in April last year, the state health authorities have managed to monitor and register cases of COVID-19 in the state.
The application is available on PlayStore and App Store mobile and has registered more than 50,000 downloads on Android devices.
The tool has been extremely useful since its creation as it has detected suspected cases that were later positive and has also ruled out cases of possible infection. Through the application, users shared their symptoms, which were categorized through an epidemiological risk assessment using a traffic light system, similar to the scheme used by the Mexican government to apply restrictions on social mobility.
The red and orange colors represent the high and medium risk of being infected, according to the symptoms presented. Through this categorization, 7,049 people with high and medium risk were identified using the app.
Subsequently, they received medical attention and remote medical support. Likewise, another 3,492 people were classified as yellow, moderate risk, and 7,041 as green, meaning there is no COVID-19 infection risk.
Valenzuela also highlighted the work carried out by the COVID monitors; a volunteer program launched by the State Government to cut the chain of contagion. This has been reflected in the decreasing numbers of infections and deaths in the last few weeks.
