Web posted at: 8/21/2009 7:8:11
Source ::: THE PENINSULA
DOHA: The Supreme Council for Health is all set for mass awareness campaigns against the H1N1 influenza. The council is planning to launch a new strategy to create awareness, according to a notice from SCH.
To tone down the panic the flu has created, the council will launch campaigns in three stages. The first and the most important part will be involving people coming to Qatar from outside. For this, brochures and pamphlets, in English and Arabic, on H1N1 virus and precautionary measures will be distributed to all arriving in Qatar. Public advisory signs on protecting from the swine flu will be put up at the arrival terminal.
The ministry will also make a short movie to be screened in the aircrafts before landing as a safety message in cooperation with Qatar Airways. The airline company will also be responsible to distribute brochures at all points of entry into Qatar, as per the ministry’s notice.
The second part of the campaign will be for the people in Qatar. The health council will issue guidelines in Al Sharq newspaper and will air awareness clippings on Qatar Radio. Another brochure will be published in three languages Arabic, Hindi and English.
The council in association with Al Jazeera will make a documentary on the disease.
The ministry also has made agreement with various banks to broadcast short movies on H1N1 on monitors inside the banks. As the third part of ministry’s strategy, seminars and lectures organised at schools, mosques and Ramadan tents.
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