WHO To Provide H1N1 Vaccine To Vietnam Next Month

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WHO To Provide H1N1 Vaccine To Vietnam Next Month
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HANOI, Nov 26 (Bernama) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) is committed to provide Vietnam with 1.2 million doses of the A/H1N1 flu vaccine, the Vietnam news agency reported, citing Director of the Health Ministry's Preventive Medicine and Environment Department Dr Nguyen Huy Nga as saying.

Dr Nguyen said that Vietnam will be one of the first 16 countries to receive the vaccine next month.

The vaccine will be administered to pregnant woman and health-care workers who are in contact with H1N1-infected patients.

According to Dr Nguyen, the ministry is going to ask other international organisations for more vaccine.

WHO said the vaccine is safe for pregnant woman and that there has been no evidence saying that the vaccine affects the development of the foetus or the mother's health, said Dr. Nguyen Tran Hien, Director of the Central Epidemiology and Hygiene Institute.

Vietnam confirmed one more death from the H1N1 virus on November 25, raising its total death toll to 43.

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800,000 pregnant women to receive swine flu vaccinations

Some 800,000 women over four months pregnant will be given H1N1 vaccinations from the 1.2 million doses pledged by the WHO according to health ministry?s Department of Preventive Health and Environment.

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Expected to arrive next month, the vaccine supply will also benefit 200,000 health workers, Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the department, said last Sunday.


Other subjects to be given priority will be those with chronic diseases, he added.

The department said Vietnam will be helped with some 10 million doses of influenza A (H1N1) virus vaccines by other countries through the World Health Organization next year.


While the number of swine flu-positive cases is decreasing, more patients with critical conditions are being recorded, the Ministry of Health?s agency noted.


Since it was first detected in the country, the epidemic has claimed 43 lives with the latest death reported last Wednesday, a 20-year-old woman from the central province of Khanh Hoa who was seven weeks pregnant, Nga said.

Reported by Lien Chau


http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=53959

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