Re: Egypt,The arrival of the third installment of the swine flu vaccine.
Health" earmarks, the new installments of a vaccine, "influenza" to vaccinate workers in the private health sector and the government .. Studying the import of additional quantities of pregnant women and people living with chronic diseases and students
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 08:54
D. Hatim the Minister of Health
Abdul Salam wrote Princess
Ministry of Health announced the
allocation of new batch of swine flu vaccine, which arrived at Cairo Airport in the early hours of the day to
vaccinate medical personnel in both government and private hospitals, that is
allocated the rest of the quantities of vaccine to inoculate batches
in charge of managing the affairs of everyday life, first and foremost drivers of subway trains and workers in the sectors of water and electricity, pointing out that under the search import additional quantities of vaccine, especially from the big countries which bought large amounts of it and have surplus to requirements.
D. Hatem the Minister of Health confirmed that he now seeks to contract with other pharmaceutical companies for a share of a new virus, criticizing the policy of major to get the vaccine, which booked more than 85% of the total amount of the vaccine on the global level, leaving the rest of the population of the poor, including Egypt, the quantities small fraction of the vaccines do not last them, but we are now trying to agree with some European countries that have purchased large quantities and has a surplus, such as France, Switzerland and the Netherlands to buy such quantities of them. "
The official source from within the company, "Glaxo Smith Kline" that the company is committed to delivering the vaccine payments on time and according to the contract between her office in the Middle East and the Ministry of Health in Egypt, pointing out that, with this third installment of Egypt have two batches of the vaccine reaches the fourth month of January and the fifth and final in April, completing all the contracting Egypt's share of the vaccine and the number of 5 million doses of vaccine.
He pointed out for "Company of Glasgow Smith Kline" supplier of anti-serum to swine flu virus to the Egyptian Ministry of Health on the formal adoption of the WHO's vaccine produced by vaccination against swine flu virus, which is the dependence between the first and only all-producing vaccines for the prevention of the virus by the organization before start in the market, including the Egyptian market for the drug.
For his part,
Dr.. Mr. Nasr Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs for the preventive plan of the Ministry of Health identified
a range of groups to be vaccinated according to the serum, the
new plan of the Ministry of Health, which is divided into three categories, the first state leaders, officials and health team workers, police and defense personnel and means of transportation facilities and services, and the media, and
the category Second are the people exposed to the risk of complications, particularly severe chronic diseases, pregnant women and students with chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancers and respiratory system, and
the third category are persons who are exposed to infection.
As for the vaccination of schoolchildren and university Ministry of Health confirmed a 1.5 million doses of the new payments to vaccinate students with chronic diseases, especially diabetes and heart disease and cancer and respiratory diseases as those who were most susceptible to complications due to infection of swine flu,
in addition to vaccination of pregnant women against HIV infection Given the entry in the groups most vulnerable to complications as a result of infection with swine flu.
It is worth mentioning that he had previously made the Ministry of Health joint letter from the Foreign Ministry and Health to the Secretary General of the United Nations to protest the inequitable distribution of vaccine for swine flu to all countries in the world, where rich countries get all the needs of the population of these vaccines, while developing and poor countries do not get the minimum needs of its citizens from these vaccines, noting it is currently increasing the production of the manufacturers of these vaccines than 50% of the population in the world to 30% of the population, in order to meet the needs of the peoples of the world of these vaccines from the swine flu .
