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Saudi MERS response hobbled by institutional failings

Shiloh

Shiloh

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-mers-response-hobbled-institutional-failings-141355280.html


Saudi MERS response hobbled by institutional failings
Reuters
By By Angus McDowall and Kate Kelland 5 minutes ago

RIYADH/LONDON (Reuters) - When Saudi Arabia announced last week it had found 113 more cases of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), it didn't just force a rethink of the threat the virus poses, it exposed institutional failings.

Saudi health sources and international virologists said poor communication and a lack of accountability in government departments, inadequate state oversight and a failure to learn from past mistakes have all hindered Saudi Arabia's battle against the SARS-like virus.

They say it is too soon to tell if reforms introduced by a new acting health minister can overcome what they see as underlying problems...
 
Re: Saudi MERS response hobbled by institutional failings

also from above....

UNREPORTED CASES

Tariq Madani, head of the scientific advisory board at the health ministry, said 58 of the 113 cases added last week had been confirmed as positive in government hospitals and laboratories, but the results had simply not been passed by those institutions to the ministry.

Another 22 cases tested positive at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, but duplicate samples were not sent to government laboratories and the institution did not communicate the results to the health ministry, he said.

A spokesman for King Faisal Specialist Hospital declined to comment further and referred all queries back to the health ministry.

The remaining 33 cases had tested positive in private laboratories but showed as negative in government ones, Madani said.


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This is a mess. How can the WHO confirm all 113 when they did not confirm the Italian and Spanish cases because of testing irregularities?


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