Re: Saudi Arabia - A/H1N1 cases- 29
Re: Saudi Arabia - A/H1N1 cases- 29
Extraordinary measures after the arrival of the swine flu of Mecca and Medina
Khalid Murghalani
Riyadh / Saudi Arabia is preparing to face the possibility of the spread of swine flu among pilgrims and Umrah performers, particularly with the monitoring of infections of the disease in Mecca and Medina.
And monitoring of the virus (H 1 N 1) with three children in the Saudi city and to the children in the nine-year-old at a hotel near the Holy Mosque in Mecca, according to the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia.
The discovery of 12 new cases in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the toll in the Kingdom of the injured to 29 since the first case on the third of June.
The receipt of these cases highlight the risks posed by the virus on millions of pilgrims and pilgrims who are expected to visit SA between August and December, according to Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Murghalani.
Murghalani said that the Saudi government is currently working with experts from WHO and other international organizations to develop a plan to deal with this threat.
The Murghalani in this context that "the whole world concerned about this issue, and we do our best, were guests of Vakadmon Rahman."
The spokesman noted that the Ministry of Health collected quantities of Tamiflu, which is used to treat the disease, and sufficient to address the 10 percent of SA population who are more than 25 million people.
The local press reported that the pharmacies sell large quantities of Tamiflu, in parallel with the growing concern among the population of the spread of swine flu, and the drug is effective in the early stages of the disease from spreading.
According Murghalani expects the Saudi authorities that the risk of the spread of the disease is growing significantly with the start of the peak season in the pilgrimage from the second half of August, during the month of Ramadan next year.
The biggest risk is, of course, during the pilgrimage season in November with the understanding that some 1.7 million pilgrims of the world participated in the pilgrimage last year.
Murghalani said that Saudi Arabia has a health plan for the prevention and treatment of diseases prevalent among the pilgrims, said Murghalani that "Hajj and Umrah are a complex system of control," referring to the non-registration of the spread of any disease or epidemic is among the pilgrims during the past years.
Expects the Saudi Ministry of Health to finalize the plan for addressing the development of swine flu in collaboration with the World Health Organization experts later this month, knowing that the authorities deployed cameras at airports to monitor body temperature and, therefore, to monitor cases of suspected influenza.
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