EGYPT - "The WHO demands the compensation of afflicted from the bird flu"

[Theresa42]

Machine-translated from Arabic:

The World Health Organization demands the compensation of afflicted from the bird flu
Feb 12, 2007

She wrote - Sanaa Mostafa: Yesterday the World Health Organization delegation demanded the necessity of the provision of the financial support to the bird flu fighting plans in Egypt and the continuation of the compensation of citizens for the improvement of their habits and keeping away from the dealing with the alive birds for confronting the international epidemic and the preservation of the Egyptian society from the danger of the virus spread between the birds and the joy that came in the mountain meeting of doctor Hatem the Minister of Health and the citizens with the World Health Organization team at the end of his visit of Egypt for inspecting the health condition to the hospitals and the citizens and the assurance of the safety of the followed measures with the sick inside the fevers hospitals and the chest diseases.

And doctor Abdul Rahman Shahin the spokesman of the ministry stated that the organization team inspected the condition of the governorates with most injury by the bird flu and included western governorate [Al Gharbiyah], Monofiya and the hospitals of chest and the Abbasid [in Cairo] fevers included. Also the organization discussed scenarios and Egypt readiness for the confrontation of the bird flu disease within a year the coming specially the house injuries is due to mixing the citizens of the alive birds after its injury by the disease.

And the organization delegation confirmed in the report that the Ministry of Health received the non occurrence of disorder in the economic status of Egypt through the dealing with the crisis of bird flu, also the organization praised the transparency that declared in it the size of the real injuries that reached 20 injured from them 12 and the recovery of 8 conditions was dead.

http://www.alwafd.org/v2/News/NewsD...al&PHPSESSID=d12cd522be9f82fa4c5a3f6acbc1953f

 

[Thornton]

Re: EGYPT - "The WHO demands the compensation of afflicted from the bird flu"

Here is an 8 page Executive Summary from the FAO on the topic.

http://www.fao.org/docs/eims/upload//217838/gui_hpai_compensationsumm_en.pdf

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) under current conditions
poses a major risk to human and animal health. Efforts to contain
the disease are therefore in national and global interest. As the most
widely practiced control methods for poultry involve culling birds
that are infected or in regions immediately around infected animals,
the most common practice to ensure the cooperation of owners
of birds is to compensate them for the culling of their animals to
achieve this public goal. Early identification of HPAI and the immediate
culling of diseased or suspected animals are critical elements
of reducing the risk of the disease spreading. The international community
and national governments have responded to this challenge
by establishing funding mechanisms to enable compensation to assist
in this strategy.

JT