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Health": There are no epidemics in the camp Zaatari
Posted: 12/09/2012 at 00:00 am (GMT +2)
Syrian children in Zaatari refugee camp Syrians - (Photo: Mohammad Abu Ghosh)
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Ihsan al-Tamimi
Mafraq - The director of primary health care in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Bassam Hijjawi there is no evidence of any epidemics of the Expert Group, which was formed for this purpose in the camp Zaatari, noting that children who have died in the camp was to die a natural result of chronic diseases.
pointed Hijjawi to form field teams to visit Zaatari camp a week and submit a report on the health situation in the camp. He added Hijjawi he did not record any additional cases infected with tuberculosis, referring to heal 27 cases while still 3 cases receive treatment.
said spokesperson refugee camps Syrians Tigers Hamoud said that since the opening of the camp did not register only three deaths to children Syrians recorded the first case of infants ( 8, and 10 months) due to a sharp decline in heart muscle also showed the autopsy reports, and the third death of a baby did not exceed old year as a result congenital malformation of the heart. "
The director of respiratory diseases and the health of arrivals at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Khaled Abu Rumman, referring to the presence of 12 cases of tuberculosis in Camp Zaatari out of 30 cases of TB among all Syrian refugees in the Kingdom, noting that it is still three of them are receiving treatment because they are kind of resistant TB. explained that the cost of treatment monthly per patient to "TB" than two thousand dinars, and expected that number rises to 60 infected, where reports indicate medical prevalence of tuberculosis among Syrians $ 30 per 100 thousand.
said Abu Rumman It is the formation of committees to discuss and investigate the whereabouts, in addition to organizing on a weekly groups most vulnerable to injury and work 500 pictures radial week is believed to be rate injury is high, as a result of the emergence of some of the symptoms.
added that the service therapeutic tuberculosis offering free, in addition to providing financial and in-kind for people to help them to improve their living conditions.
The Ministry of Health had earlier vaccinating children Syrians day old - 15 years in the camp Zaatari order to prevent measles and polio, in addition to providing a dose vitamin. said Director of Health Mafraq Dr. Daifallah account in previous press statements that the vaccination campaign came away from the protocols normal force implicit in this regard, as has been locked 15 thousand doses of vaccines of different warehouses Directorate.
between it and through a team of health directorate retail is currently providing insurance doses to children in the camp Directorate will continue its campaign until the end of all doses in the warehouse. pointed to the financial burden borne by the Kingdom to bear the cost of health care for refugees Syrians, especially vaccines to the fact that it imports from abroad, adding that health workers in the camp scans every Syrian refugees entering the Kingdom to make sure it is free of communicable diseases and provide necessary treatment for cases of illness, if any.
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Health": There are no epidemics in the camp Zaatari
Posted: 12/09/2012 at 00:00 am (GMT +2)
Syrian children in Zaatari refugee camp Syrians - (Photo: Mohammad Abu Ghosh)
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Ihsan al-Tamimi
Mafraq - The director of primary health care in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Bassam Hijjawi there is no evidence of any epidemics of the Expert Group, which was formed for this purpose in the camp Zaatari, noting that children who have died in the camp was to die a natural result of chronic diseases.
pointed Hijjawi to form field teams to visit Zaatari camp a week and submit a report on the health situation in the camp. He added Hijjawi he did not record any additional cases infected with tuberculosis, referring to heal 27 cases while still 3 cases receive treatment.
said spokesperson refugee camps Syrians Tigers Hamoud said that since the opening of the camp did not register only three deaths to children Syrians recorded the first case of infants ( 8, and 10 months) due to a sharp decline in heart muscle also showed the autopsy reports, and the third death of a baby did not exceed old year as a result congenital malformation of the heart. "
The director of respiratory diseases and the health of arrivals at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Khaled Abu Rumman, referring to the presence of 12 cases of tuberculosis in Camp Zaatari out of 30 cases of TB among all Syrian refugees in the Kingdom, noting that it is still three of them are receiving treatment because they are kind of resistant TB. explained that the cost of treatment monthly per patient to "TB" than two thousand dinars, and expected that number rises to 60 infected, where reports indicate medical prevalence of tuberculosis among Syrians $ 30 per 100 thousand.
said Abu Rumman It is the formation of committees to discuss and investigate the whereabouts, in addition to organizing on a weekly groups most vulnerable to injury and work 500 pictures radial week is believed to be rate injury is high, as a result of the emergence of some of the symptoms.
added that the service therapeutic tuberculosis offering free, in addition to providing financial and in-kind for people to help them to improve their living conditions.
The Ministry of Health had earlier vaccinating children Syrians day old - 15 years in the camp Zaatari order to prevent measles and polio, in addition to providing a dose vitamin. said Director of Health Mafraq Dr. Daifallah account in previous press statements that the vaccination campaign came away from the protocols normal force implicit in this regard, as has been locked 15 thousand doses of vaccines of different warehouses Directorate.
between it and through a team of health directorate retail is currently providing insurance doses to children in the camp Directorate will continue its campaign until the end of all doses in the warehouse. pointed to the financial burden borne by the Kingdom to bear the cost of health care for refugees Syrians, especially vaccines to the fact that it imports from abroad, adding that health workers in the camp scans every Syrian refugees entering the Kingdom to make sure it is free of communicable diseases and provide necessary treatment for cases of illness, if any.
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