Evaluación de índices anémicos en los empleados y trabajadores del EP EMAPAR (Empresa Pública- Empresa Municipal de agua potable y alcantarillado de Riobamba).

Abstract

The present research was carried out to evaluate the anemic índices employees’ and employees at Empresa Publica – Empresa Municipal de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado (EP-EMAPAR) in riobamba. Studies have been done in patients agead between 22 and 68 years old, in a population 229 employees they were collected samples of urine, feces and blood, which were taken with due biosecurity standards and consent of each person. Then carried out in a suitable way and processed at laboratory from biochemical and bacteriological analysis at faculty of sciences at Polytechnic Higher School of Chimborazo, performing coproparasitary, urological, chemical and blood biometric test manually. A univariate descriptive statistical analysis was performed using chi square test verifying the relationship between these. It used a level of significance of 0.05 of which were used in all the tests wiht a 95 % confidence interval. The results show that the total parasite population was 37 % and of them 45 % presented cysts of Entamoeba histolytic as the most prevalent parasite. It is concluded that there is no relationship between parasitic disease and main parameters that determine anemia (hematocrit and hemoglobin) since the percentage was only 0.87 % for employees, where it is recommended to provide information abaut higiene habits. Health personnel from institution, to all employees and employees at ep-emapar, to improve higiene and food safety habits, to generate quality of life in the study population.