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Minister and representative of the United Nations: Egypt are less of the world in deaths and swine influenza

Giuseppe

Emeritus
Source: GOM, http://www.gom.com.eg/index.php?action=news&id=77402

Minister and representative of the United Nations: Egypt are less of the world in deaths and swine influenza


Nasreen Azab
15/12/2010

The health minister said that Egypt has a national program for surveillance of influenza, whether birds or pigs or disease-like and thus is considered one of the few countries in the world still lurk for these diseases.

Said after meeting yesterday with David Nabarro representative of the United Nations to file the bird flu that the total number of cases of bird flu in Egypt since the onset of the disease so far reached 113 cases died, 37 of them case by the death of 33%, the lowest proportion of deaths from this disease in the world, reaching this percentage to 67% in some countries.

The minister said that for the swine flu is emerging influenza was discovered 348 to the injury since last October and so far, and the number of deaths from this disease in this period amounted to 16 cases, only pointing out that compared to the same period last year, has been monitoring about 10 thousand and 955 wounded died of which about 124 cases.

The minister said that the disease under control and that Egypt implement a plan and an integrated strategy to address these diseases, pointing out that he is surveillance of swine flu and that the ministry issued weekly reports of cases of disease and deaths.

He said the World Health Organization decided to include swine flu to seasonal flu, as the taste of seasonal influenza has a taste of the swine flu .. He pointed out that bird flu has become endemic in Egypt, and that there is coordination between all agencies and ministries concerned to confront this disease.

The minister that the experience of bird flu in the world confirmed the inequitable distribution of vaccines for this disease in countries where the rich got all the needs of these vaccines, while poor countries do not get on the requirements of their people .. He pointed out that Egypt had objected to the report of the World Health Organization to raise the degree of the face of bird flu according to the geographical distribution of Egypt asserted that the degree of coping with the disease must be based on the intensity and severity of the disease and the number of deaths and injuries where sustained some countries, large sums of money based on reports of the organization to raise the degree of confrontation to the disease.

David Nabarro representative of the United Nations that the countries of Egypt, which has developed an integrated plan for the surveillance of the disease .. And there is always cooperation to cope with bird flu, whether or pigs .. He pointed out that he reviewed with the Minister of Health, the Egyptian experience to confront these diseases.

Sample negative Mahmudiya

Lake Hamid Al-Barbari:
Revealed as a result of the analysis of samples taken from Aaty "40 years" Farms Mahmudiya and reserved for hospital admitted Damanhur Splitha against swine flu. And he recovered. Has been granted his release after the serum.

Fayoum real injuries children
Fayoum Jasmine and Mohamed Gamal Kotb:

The results of analysis labs central Ministry of Health previously positive samples obtained from children who are detained Fayoum General Hospital, a hospital diets to maintain a disease emerging influenza.

First case of a child at the age of one month from the city of Fayoum, was being held at the General Hospital.

The second case of a child at the age of 3 years from the village of Obudwip inspector of the status of detainees and fever hospital in the county.

And the injury was a cold, shortness of breath experienced by hundreds of children in Fayoum may have caused the death of a girl aged 44 days after it rejected all of the hospital health insurance and hospital Fayoum General received last Thursday evening, forcing people to be brought into a private hospital and stayed by 48 hours until he passed away affected by a cold, shortness of breath.

These results confirmed the lack of sincerity of all the officials from the Ministry of the difficult and the province of Fayoum, who has repeatedly denied the existence of cases of children viral infections.

And confirms the paediatricians and health insurance high incidence of colds and the sensitivity of the chest and pneumonia these days than in past years.

At the same time rejects the Department of Health officials and the public hospital and hospital diets permit any information or clarify the truth for fear of senior officials.

The hospital emergency department health insurance in Fayoum was full last week, etc. amounted to a capacity completely.

The hospital administration was forced to processing elsewhere in hospital to receive the new children who suffer from the same symptoms and their mothers.

The hospital had to transfer patients who increased their children about the power of hospital insurance to the Fayoum General Hospital. And had quite a few of the parents to go to private clinics after the public hospital administration has asked them to pay the amount of ? 50 for every night spent in hospital the child.

In the "confidential" report prepared by the Director of the Fayoum General Hospital submitted to the governor. Under the ministry to maintain and build on the guidance of the Ministry in this regard shows that the number of cases received by the emergency department and clinics at the hospital since the first of December until the current day 10 of the same month amounted to 383 cases were diagnosed as common cold and common popular and pneumonia.

Then received outpatient and emergency department the next day to prepare the report 80 cases.

The three swabs were taken for the children of detainees to be sent to the central laboratory in the ministry on suspicion of bird flu emerging.

The result was one of them positive for the disease.

Came as another sample of a child custody fever hospital also positive for the flu developments

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Re: Minister and representative of the United Nations: Egypt are less of the world in deaths and swine influenza

the total number of cases of bird flu in Egypt since the onset of the disease so far reached 113 cases died, 37 of them case by the death of 33%, the lowest proportion of deaths from this disease in the world, reaching this percentage to 67% in some countries.

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Thanks for posting IOH.

This statement is simply not true. They have no idea what the case fatality rate of bird flu, H5N1, is in Egypt since they have no idea what the true total number of cases are.
 
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