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Hospitals to get special suits to fight flu outbreak
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will purchase 40,000 phylactic suits for doctors and nurses to prepare for a future flu pandemic expected to be caused by a possible new strain of influenza.
Drugs and medical supplies also will be stockpiled as part of the government's plan to enhance preparations to combat a flu pandemic.
The suits will be purchased in fiscal 2009 and 2010, ministry sources said.
The ministry has appropriated 3.1 billion yen for the protective suits, and special baby beds and respirators, in its budget request for fiscal 2009.
The ministry will urge medical institutions to set up an outpatient department for people with a fever should there be an influenza outbreak, so people anywhere in the nation can reach the nearest such clinic within 30 minutes.
(Sep. 2, 2008)
Hospitals to get special suits to fight flu outbreak
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will purchase 40,000 phylactic suits for doctors and nurses to prepare for a future flu pandemic expected to be caused by a possible new strain of influenza.
Drugs and medical supplies also will be stockpiled as part of the government's plan to enhance preparations to combat a flu pandemic.
The suits will be purchased in fiscal 2009 and 2010, ministry sources said.
The ministry has appropriated 3.1 billion yen for the protective suits, and special baby beds and respirators, in its budget request for fiscal 2009.
The ministry will urge medical institutions to set up an outpatient department for people with a fever should there be an influenza outbreak, so people anywhere in the nation can reach the nearest such clinic within 30 minutes.
(Sep. 2, 2008)