Norway asks for WHO assistence

[Anty]

WHO to send experts to Norway
Concerned that so many have died of swine flu. Norge sier nei. Norway says no.


World Health Organization (WHO) is so concerned that so many have died of swine flu in Norway that they would send experts here.

But Norway says no.

Monday sent Health Minister Anne-Grete Str?m-Erichsen (Ap) a letter to the CEO of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.

Influenza pandemic is now spreading rapidly throughout the country and close to inhabited areas have now been hardest hit. Compared with other European countries, we have a higher death rate, to the extent that the WHO has expressed concern and have contacted our health authorities to provide assistance, "the letter, according to VG.

Health Minister wrote the letter after the accident in which 170,000 doses of influenza vaccine Pandemrix was in bits at the production plant in Belgium. In the letter she asked pharmaceutical giant to receive additional doses as soon as possible.

. The Assistant Director-General of WHO to have made contact with the health director Bj?rn Inge Larsen.

- - They offered their assistance. There was talk of sending someone from the WHO here to assist us, "Str?m-Erichsen told VG.

. But Norway has so far said no to help.

- . - We have ongoing dialogue with the WHO, but is awaiting the offer of assistance, "said health minister. (NTB) (NTB)

http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/11/04/nyheter/innenriks/utenriks/svineinfluensa/8871874/

 

[Anty]

Re: WHO want to send experts to Norway- Norway says no so far.

Re: WHO want to send experts to Norway- Norway says no so far.

WHO alarm about Norwegian death
Av Andreas Nielsen By Andreas Nielsen 04.11.2009 kl. 04.11.2009 kl. 07:55

World Health Organization (WHO) is so concerned about the high mortality of swine influenza in Norway that they will send their experts here.


. Asked more vaccine: Anne-Grete Str?m-Erichsen Monday sent a letter to the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, where she asked for extra doses of swine flu vaccine. . Here it comes out that WHO has responded to Norway's high death rate.

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It appears from a letter Health Minister Anne-Grete Str?m-Erichsen (Ap) Monday sent to the CEO of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and that VG has been granted access.

Str?m-Erichsen wrote the letter after the accident in which 170,000 doses of influenza vaccine Pandemrix walked a thousand bits of the production in Belgium, so that Norway will have fewer doses than we've ordered.

Health minister asks pharmaceutical giant to receive additional doses as soon as possible.

Deeply troubled

Her reasoning for why this is so important, reveals that the WHO is deeply worried for the rapid spread of svineinfluensasmitten in this country:

"Influenza pandemic is now spreading rapidly throughout the country and close to inhabited areas have now been hardest hit. Compared with other European countries, we have a higher death rate, to the extent that the WHO has expressed concern and have contacted our health authorities to provide assistance, "said the letter.



Str?m-Erichsen confirmed to VG that the Assistant Director-General of WHO contacted the health director Bj?rn Inge Larsen.

- They offered their assistance. There was talk of sending someone from the WHO here to assist us, "said health minister told VG.

. But Norway has so far declined to help.

"We have ongoing dialogue with the WHO, but is awaiting the offer of assistance.
They see that we have vaccines and medicine and that we do what we can, "says Str?m-Erichsen.


Altogether Norway has ordered 9.4 million doses of vaccine - for all Norwegians can get two doses.

Towards the end of this week, the authorities will have received 950,000 doses.

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. - It is theoretically NOK that we have vaccines NOK to all the risk groups, "said Str?m-Erichsen.


http://www.vg.no/helse/svineinfluensa/artikkel.php?artid=582606

 

[Anty]

Ops, now TV2 writes that it was the other way, Norway asks WHO for swine flu aid.Not the WHO that it contacted
?- There is Norway, which has made contact with the pandemic coordinator at WHO gets to make a review of the Norwegian pandemic worked so far. We asked if they could send people here if it were needed, now or later. We have an ongoing dialogue with them. It was we who contacted them, "said Health Minister Anne-Grete Str?m-Erichsen (Ap) to the NTB. (?NTB) (? NTB)

http://www.tv2nyhetene.no/innenriks/norge-ber-who-om-svineinfluensahjelp-2990597.html

Comment:Now I dont know what to belive!

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Norway asks WHO assistence

Re: Norway asks WHO assistence

WHO asked for help with the swine flu


Norway has made contact with the WHO for a review of the Norwegian pandemic work.


Today VG reported that Health Minister Anne-Grete Str?m-Erichsen (Ap) should have sent a letter to the CEO of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.

In the letter, she said the newspaper have written:

- Influenza pandemic is now spreading rapidly throughout the country and close to inhabited areas have now been hardest hit. Compared with other European countries, we have a higher death rate, to the extent that the WHO has expressed concern and have contacted our health authorities to provide assistance.

But it is not true that the WHO has made contact with Norwegian health authorities, the NTB lit.

- It is Norway, which has made contact with the pandemic at WHO responsible for a review of the Norwegian pandemic worked so far. We asked if they could send people here if it were needed, now or later. We have an ongoing dialogue with them. It was we who contacted them, "said Health Minister Anne-Grete Str?m-Erichsen (Ap) to the NTB.

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/1.6848682

 

[ming]

Re: Norway asks for WHO assistence

I don't understand why Scotland, with the same population and a much higher death rate, don't do the same! I think we are on 31 deaths here for 5 million people.

 

[Anty]

Re: Norway asks for WHO assistence

WHO concerned about the high Norwegian death toll
Health Director is considering asking for help in two weeks. Denies that Norway has rejected expert.

(Dagbladet): Today, reported VG that Norway rejected a request for assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO) about the mapping of the relatively high number of swine flu deaths in this country.

It is now rejected by the health director Bj?rn Inge Larsen and Health Minister Anne Grete Str?m-Erichsen.

The case is wrong, it is we who first made contact with pandemic coordinator at WHO, Keiji Fukuda. We have not turned down anything from the WHO and they have not declined to ask something, "said health director Bj?rn Inge Larsen told newspaper Dagbladet today.

In connection with the ordering of new vaccines from pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, wrote Health Minister Str?m-Erichsen following:

"Influenza pandemic is now spreading rapidly throughout the country and close to inhabited areas have now been hardest hit. Compared with other European countries, we have a higher death rate, to the extent that the WHO has expressed concern and have contacted our health authorities to provide assistance, "said the letter, according to VG.

Then quoted the health minister of the VG that Norway has declined to receive assistance from WHO.

This is not true, according to health director.

You refer to a phone call, where the WHO's pandemic chief Keiji Fukuda contacted me to show his attention and say that they were aware of the high death toll in Norway as a result of swine flu. . I already did that then we will review the Norwegian death to look for common denominators, we have not discovered before, and that if the high numbers in Norway continues, it will be appropriate for us to contact the WHO, "says Larsen.

According to health director took the call center last week, Monday or Tuesday.

- We may request assistance from WHO experts to survey and review the data. It will be clear about a couple of weeks, "said Larsen.
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Nowegian text:
WHO bekymret for h?ye norske d?dstall

Helsedirekt?ren vurderer ? be om hjelp om to uker. Avviser at Norge har takket nei til eksperthjelp.
(Dagbladet): I dag melder VG at Norge takket nei til en foresp?rsel om hjelp fra Verdens helseorganisasjon (WHO) rundt kartleggingen av det relativt h?ye antallet svineinfluensa-d?dsfall i her til lands.

Det avvises n? av helsedirekt?r Bj?rn Inge Larsen og helseminister Anne Grete Str?m-Erichsen.

Skrev brev
- Den saken er feil, det er vi som f?rst tok kontakt med pandemiansvarlig i WHO, Keiji Fukuda. Vi har ikke takket nei til noe fra WHO og de har heller ikke avvist ? stille med noe, sier helsedirekt?r Bj?rn Inge Larsen til Dagbladet i dag.

I forbindelse med bestilling av nye vaksiner fra legemiddelfirmaet GlaxoSmithKline, skrev helseminister Str?m-Erichsen f?lgende:

?Influensapandemien sprer seg n? raskt gjennom landet og tettbebodde str?k har til n? blitt hardest rammet. Sammenlignet med andre europeiske land har vi en h?yere d?dsrate, til den grad at WHO har uttrykt bekymring og har tatt kontakt med v?re helsemyndigheter for ? tilby assistanse?, heter det i brevet if?lge VG.

Deretter siteres helseministeren av VG p? at Norge har avvist ? motta assistanse fra WHO.

Telefonsamtale
Dette stemmer ikke, if?lge helsedirekt?ren.

- Her henvises det til en telefonsamtale, der WHOs pandemisjef Keiji Fukuda kontaktet meg for ? vise sin oppmerksomhet og si at de var klar over de h?ye d?dstallene i Norge som f?lge av svineinfluensa. Vi dr?ftet mulige ?rsaker og tiltak. Jeg redegjorde deretter for at vi vil gjennomg? de norske d?dsfallene for ? se etter fellesnevnere vi ikke har oppdaget f?r, og at dersom de h?ye tallene i Norge fortsetter, s? vil det v?re aktuelt for oss ? kontakte WHO, sier Larsen.

If?lge helsedirekt?ren fant samtalen sted forrige uke, mandag eller tirsdag.

- Det kan v?re vi ber om hjelp fra WHOs eksperter for ? kartlegge og gjennomg? dataene. Det vil v?re klart om et par uker, sier Larsen.

http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/11/04/nyheter/svineinfluensa/innenriks/helse/utenriks/8872508/