Re: Egypt: Urgent Conference between the Ministry of Health and the WHO
Im not surprised by whats below egypt is acting like they dont want certain information made public based on their actions of pulling a no show for the meeting. what a major insult directed at the folks over at the who.
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Tarik Amin
Officials expect the World Health Organization in Cairo, the virus could mutate ((H1N1 swine flu known at any moment, and emphasized during an emergency meeting that the virus will be more vicious and deadly if it mutates in humans, as they added, they are in constant dialogue with the manufacturers of the vaccines available vaccine of the disease in the near future, in addition to providing assistance to various countries, especially developing countries to be manufactured locally.
The officials of the Regional Office of WHO for the Eastern Mediterranean, based in Cairo, held an emergency (meeting) conference yesterday evening, which he called for (no) closure of the border (and) not to impose any restrictions on international travel and trade, pointing out that the States have the right to assess their own (needs) and shift in a timely manner to the procedures radical and assertive (enough) to alleviate the impact of the epidemic.
The Cairo conference, (held)hours after a meeting of the Emergency Committee of the Geneva Declaration of the virus "swine flu" pandemic, and the arrival of the degree of the warning phase of the disease to six.
The (who) officials (found) in their (meeting), ((which was) missed by all leaders (and staff)of the Egyptian Ministry of Health) , the facts about the epidemic which has become a reality without a panic, stressed the Organization's director of disease, "Dr. Jawad al-Mahmoud," the criteria for the outbreak of the epidemic have been achieved which led to the transition to phase VI, which reflect the spread of the virus in most of the territory of the World Health Organization, but the pandemic can be described as medium impact.
The medical coordinator for emerging diseases, the World Health Organization, "Dr. John Jabbour," that the "pandemic" is a new type of virus transmitted between human beings to spread rapidly between people, and the receptivity of public expected to take place, new infections in the world, expected to continue over the weeks and the coming months.
He also drew attention to the degree of disease is very low so far, since most of the people infected have recovered from it, calling her a measure of health systems to absorb all the cases resulting from infection.
As for the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, stressed Dr. "Ahmed Abdel-Latif," WHO representative in Egypt that date, all imported cases of injury or contact with imported "from abroad", and this imposes on the country's preventive methods of public safety to reduce the disease spread inside with the need to activate the systems of surveillance and preparedness, with the tightening process and the organizational capacity of the health team with a dynamic, and full transparency in the presentation of the situation to continue as part of the pandemic preparedness plans with the development and intensification of national efforts to control the disease, healthy and socially.
