Minister of health Refused to Prevent Egyptians From the Hajj and Umrah

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Egypt: "The health of the people" refused to prevent the Egyptians from the Hajj and Umrah

August 12, 2009


فشلت وزارة الصحة فى إقناع أعضاء لجنة الصحة بمجلس الشعب بإصدار توصية لإلغاء عمرة رمضان هذا العام، وذلك خوفاً من إصابة المعتمرين المصريين بمرض أنفلونزا الخنازير بالسعودية نتيجة الاختلاط والازدحام.

Ministry of Health has failed to convince the members of the People's Assembly Health Committee with a recommendation to cancel the Umrah Ramadan this year, and the fear of infection with avian Egyptian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, the result of mixing pigs and congestion.

أكد الدكتور عبد الحميد أباظة مسئول الاتصال السياسى بوزارة الصحة، والذى حضر اجتماع اللجنة البرلمانية نيابة عن الدكتور حاتم الجبلى وزير الصحة، إن إجمالى عدد الذين أصيبوا من فيروس أنفلونزا الخنازير فى السعودية 600 مصاب، وهو ما يشير إلى خطورة الأمر.

Dr. Abdel Hamid Abaza, political liaison officer at the Ministry of Health, who attended the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on behalf of Dr. Hatem el-Gabali, Minister of Health, the total number of people infected swine flu virus in Saudi Arabia, with 600, which refers to the gravity of the matter.

اقترح أباظة، على نواب المعارضة، الموافقة على إصدار وزارة الصحة لقرار بحظر أداء عمرة رمضان هذا العام، إلا أن الدكتور حمدى السيد رئيس لجنة الصحة بمجلس الشعب ونواب المعارضة رفضوا اتخاذ القرار فى غيبة نواب الوطنى، ومن المقرر أن تعقد لجنة الصحة اجتماعاً الأسبوع القادم لمناقشة هذا الموضوع فى حضور وزير الصحة.

Abaza suggested, the opposition deputies, to approve the issuance of the Ministry of Health's decision to ban the performance of Umrah Ramadan this year, but Dr. Hamdi Al-Sayyed, head of the People's Assembly Health Committee and opposition lawmakers refused to take the decision in the absence of the National Congress, is scheduled to be held to the Health Committee meeting next week to discuss the this subject in the presence of the Minister of Health.

يذكر أن اللجنة التنفيذية العليا بوزارة الصحة ستعلن اليوم، الأربعاء، عن قرارات جديدة لضبط الأعداد التى سيسمح لها بأداء الحج والعمرة هذا العام.

Is noteworthy that the Supreme Executive Committee, Ministry of Health announced today, Wednesday, on the new decisions to adjust the numbers will be allowed to perform Hajj and Umrah this year.

 

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Re: Minister of health Refused to Prevent Egyptians From the Hajj and Umrah

8/12/2009 6:59:00​

Egypt decided to stop new bookings as of Wednesday, Amra

Alexandria - The Egyptian Council of Ministers, headed by Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Prime Minister, decided to stop any new bookings for travel to the minor as of Wednesday, as part of the pursuit of reducing the risks for society and the protection of citizens, comes within the five resolutions of the Council of Ministers during the emergency meeting in Alexandria to follow up the implications of bird flu pigs and its relationship to pilgrimage season this year with Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif and the Ministers of Defense and the Interior and Religious Endowments and civil aviation, foreign affairs, health and tourism.

The meeting also decided to follow-up continued from the Ministry of Health for the development of epidemiology of swine flu and the possibility of a regional action again upward, if necessary.

The decision came on the second and blessings of Allaah be up travel restrictions to the performance of ritual to raise the minimum age for passengers to 25 years rather than 12 years until the age of 65 years and this restriction applies to those who are already booking for the minor as of Wednesday, according to the recommendations of the regional ministerial meeting of the World Health Organization, which was held in Cairo in the twenty-second of the month of July.

The meeting also decided to raise the degree of surveillance at airports and ports and to continue to precautionary measures and the policy of containment of the Ministry of Health also decided to maintain the Committee of Ministers at the meeting to follow up a permanent position in anticipation of taking any further decisions are required during the immediate period ahead.

For his part, Dr. Magdy Radi, the official spokesman of the Council of Ministers: "The emergency ministerial meeting convened by Dr. Ahmed Nazif Alexandria today comes out of the concern of the Ministry of Health of the danger of integration with the swine flu virus bird flu virus since the bird flu has become endemic in birds Egyptian and this merger produces a new kind of viruses are more dangerous to the citizens of Egypt. "

Radi said that raising the minimum age for traveling to perform Umrah to 25 years rather than 12 years until the age of 65 years comes from the fact that young people under the age of 25 years are most vulnerable to the disease, according to the World Health Organization, where the rate of infection in the world, that segment 70% The youth of this age are more mixed, after their return in clusters of schools and universities.

He said the ministerial meeting decided in this regard, the continued implementation of other restrictions that have been taken during the meeting of the World Health Organization, which includes the necessity for the passengers to perform Umrah health certificate and be free of chronic diseases, obesity and kidney failure, liver and respiratory system, heart, and the vulnerability of pregnant women to take effect This restriction on those who are already booking to perform Umrah as of Wednesday.

For his part, Dr. Hatem el-Gabali and Minister of Health accompanied by the presence of minor pilgrimage season because of the large number of pilgrims, especially from the Egyptian countryside and endemic bird flu, where the Ministry of Health noted the recent increase in the number of cases of swine flu coming from Saudi Arabia, where Saudi Arabia has become during the past few days at the top of the list of countries that have been cases of the disease, which accounted for 23% of the total cases of swine flu, followed by 17% of England and America by 10%.

He pointed out that the number of confirmed cases coming from Saudi Arabia to Egypt amounted to a total of 80 cases of 402 confirmed cases of bird infected pigs in Egypt so far.

Source: Middle East News Agency