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Egypt - Minister of Education, A plan to "prepare students" for vaccination against influenza starts on Saturday.

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A plan to "prepare students" for vaccination against influenza starts on Saturday Thursday, December 24th, 2009 - 13:44


Dr. Yousry El-Gamal, Minister of Education
Books Hatem Salem


Decided Dr. Yousry El-Gamal, Minister of Education, the immediate start of the day on Saturday in the development plan and prepare all students for immediate vaccination vaccine to swine flu virus, and sent strict instructions to the directors of education departments and schools to get ready soon to start immediate vaccination to all students of the vaccine virus, according to a decision released on Wednesday by Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Prime Minister, after the government said it will import 4 million doses.

The minister asked the local leaders and directors of directorates in the governorates and schools, held urgent meetings with parents and representatives of boards of trustees and parents to prepare them for this decision, especially that vaccination will begin immediately upon completion of the necessary equipment in the arrival of vaccine doses to school.

He also asked the managers of schools educate parents of the importance of vaccinating their children, students, to be signed by the vaccination of his son refuses to serve a written acknowledgment of assumption of full responsibility for any consequences that may occur due to non-immunized, and considered that the directors of departments responsible for the educational process so that the vaccination carried out under the supervision and follow-minute .

The camel, that all districts and schools will immediately begin the process of awareness of the importance of the vaccine and provide elements of security by the request of the boards of trustees that is itself in permanent session until the completion of immunization with the immediate presence since the day after tomorrow morning on a daily basis within the school to enlighten the rest of the parents that the vaccine is completely safe and guaranteed by the Ministry of Health, adding that the cabinet decision to vaccinate all students indicates that the health of students comes in the Government's priorities.

And start-up vaccination in the provinces most affected by the disease, and the first in Cairo and Alexandria, Giza, Helwan, which account for the majority of students with HIV infections, and coincide with the vaccination of students with chronic diseases, such as sugar and hepatitis in all the provinces as the most likely to capture the swine flu.

The Minister instructed the organs of the follow-up educational directorates in the ministry and the exploitation of radio school morning assembly in the Plan of awareness of the importance of all students received the vaccination Shield of swine flu, as requested by doctors and health visitors to follow the situation in school health for students before and after the start of vaccination.
 
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Emergency school and required to disclose the effects of vaccinations
Friday, December 25th, 2009 - 16:05


Minister of Education Dr.. Yousry El-Gamal wrote Hatem Salem


Announced the directorates of education, the situation of extreme emergency to emergency preparedness to start vaccinating all school students against the swine flu simply by providing the Ministry of Health doses of vaccine, according to the decision of the first Council of Ministers on Wednesday.

Egyptian Center for students of the right to education, in the words of President Abdul Hafeez Tayel, the ministries of health, education, commitment to transparency in the disclosure of any negative effects of the vaccine on the health of students with the assumption of full responsibility in the event that any student for any of them after getting a dose.

Although today, Friday, an official holiday, but that the directors of departments have begun holding meetings with officials of each department learning to start next Saturday in the implementation plan of the Ministry of Education to prepare students to receive the vaccine and educate parents that it is safe and does not cause injury to any other diseases.

The conservatives decided to form a committee within each school with the task of follow-up procedures for vaccination and to make sure that all students with the collection of statements doses of parents who refuse vaccination for their children.

They include committee members visiting doctors and health officials from the school for follow-up health files for students, and that committee in coordination with the health and education Alidratin located within the school for the following preventive measures during the process of vaccination.

For its part announced that their boards of trustees and parents at the level of the Republic, if convened to begin the permanent awareness campaign parents should receive their children who worry the vaccine to convince them that it is safe 100% and does not have any negative side effects.

According to guidance issued yesterday by Dr. Yousry El Gamal, Minister of Education, the boards of trustees presence on a daily basis within schools to follow-up steps Nhiip students to receive vaccinations, and comes at a time which was not received by the directorates of education to date notification from the Ministry of Health on the start date immunizations and access doses of the vaccine.
 
Re: Egypt - Minister of Education, A plan to "prepare students" for vaccination against influenza starts on Saturday.

EGYPT: Half of all schoolchildren to be offered H1N1 inoculations

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CAIRO, 6 January 2010 (IRIN) - Egypt launched a programme on 3 January to inoculate half the country?s schoolchildren against H1N1 influenza in a bid to prevent the spread of the virus.

Phase One, which ends on 13 January, involves inoculating some 1.2 million primary school children in six designated urban areas. Phase Two, the details and duration of which have not yet been fully set out, will aim to inoculate all schoolchildren, undergraduates, pregnant women and people with chronic diseases in the six areas.

The inoculations are optional, i.e. parents have to give consent for their children to be vaccinated before any inoculation can go ahead.

?The vaccine is very important,? Amr Qandeel, head of the Department for Preventive Medicine at the Health Ministry, told IRIN. ?It?s the only way these students can avoid contracting the virus.?

Phase One involves immunizing all primary school children in the six urban centres with the highest infection levels - Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Helwan, Qaluibia and 6 October City (the latter four are areas of Greater Cairo). There have been very few H1N1 cases outside these areas.

These centres are home to more than half the nation?s 17 million schoolchildren and undergraduates.


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So far, Egypt has obtained only one million influenza shots; 150,000 have already been used to inoculate pilgrims who went to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj at the end of November 2009.

The aim is to use one dose to vaccinate two primary school children in Phase One.

The Health Ministry?s Qandeel said half a dose was sufficient for young children.

?This means that the 850,000 vaccines available will be enough to inoculate all primary school children in the above-mentioned six urban centres, in Phase One,? he said.

Some parents have expressed concern about the safety of the vaccine after hearing reports from other countries about its possible side effects. The Health Ministry has sent letters to all parents asking whether they want their children vaccinated or not.

Earlier, the Ministry said it would not vaccinate nursery age children until the possible side effects were fully understood.

More doses expected soon

Egypt expects to receive about four million additional doses of the H1N1 influenza vaccine any time now, according to Mohamed Rabie, head of Vacsera, a government-owned company responsible for importing the vaccine.

These doses will be enough to inoculate all 8.5 million schoolchildren in the designated centres, he added.

Officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) expect infections and deaths from H1N1 influenza in Egypt to rise in January and February, the peak winter months.

?Egypt isn?t one of the 50 countries most affected by the virus yet,? Hassan al-Beshri, an adviser to the World Health Organization in Cairo, said. ?Despite this, the virus can infect up to 20 percent of the population if people aren?t vaccinated.?

The Egyptian Health Ministry said on 5 January that 159 people had died of the H1N1 virus, and 4,000 had been infected since the first case in June 2008. Egypt?s population is about 80 million.

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Re: Egypt - Minister of Education, A plan to "prepare students" for vaccination against influenza starts on Saturday.

Tue, 12/01/2010 - 18:43

Most schoolchildren forgo H1N1 vaccine
Tarek Amin

The Health Ministry has announced that the parents of only 20,000 school students in six provinces had consented to have their children vaccinated against the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu.

"Our target was two million students," said ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahin. "The number we've reached is unsatisfactory. I call on parents to allow us to vaccinate their children."

Shahin claimed that many parents had misunderstood the application form, provided by the ministry, for the vaccine. "They thought it was a legal statement that put responsibility on them should anything go wrong," he said.

Shahin stopped short, however, of calling the ministry's vaccination campaign a failure. "We will continue to provide the vaccine, even if parents don't give it to their children," he said, noting that the government had paid some US$150 million for five million doses.

The ministry spokesman went on to say that H1N1 vaccinations would be made obligatory for all Egyptian Umrah pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia.

"By vaccinating Hajj pilgrims before, we avoided a potentially wider proliferation of the virus in Egypt," he noted.

Translated from the Arabic Edition.

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/most-schoolchildren-forgo-h1n1-vaccine
 
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