Egypt: Urgent health problems and method of response

March 31, 2010
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With regard to disaster response plan in case of a bird flu in Egypt to the B
Health experts are increasingly worried about the prospects in the world of a bird flu to become at any moment a deadly human pandemic. Has been advertised internationally for endemic bird flu in a number of countries, including Egypt. This is linked to global concern about what happened in the winter of 2006, when enabling a new type of influenza virus that is transmitted to humans Almkhalt of infected birds, and that this type tremendous shift in the composition thereby increasing the possibility of transmission from human to human.

One of the reasons growing fears that Egypt has become one of the first countries that could spread the disease in epidemic form, mutation of the virus in cases that are newly discovered and the death of 100% of those cases, unlike the cases were discovered in early 2006, which is likely the emergence of new strains resistant to treatment methods currently available, which means that the current virus is endemic in Egypt has evolved in his abilities differed in the patterns of what has discovered in the past year. But the most cause for alarm is the weakness of health awareness among citizens, which would lead to no reported cases of infection, and therefore did not deal with the spread of the disease as quickly as required, especially when shown by state agencies from the reaction of the irrational in the face of the disease in the last year.

According to international conventions, particularly with regard to bird flu, there is a set of preventive measures to be taken with these countries to protect the rest of the States, it is natural that such actions lead to serious economic repercussions in countries that will be classified in the affected areas.

The World Health Organization announced the start of the implementation of those regulations and procedures in the world in June 2007.

Based on the announcement by the World Health Organization, the world will need a number of years have been more than ten to the possibility of eliminating this disease. So have many governments rushed to bring in the expertise required in the face of disaster for the preparation of local plans to confront and contain the avian influenza pandemic in the movement of enmity from human to human.

In the opinion of the Democratic Front Party that is extremely important because the top of this community action plan in Egypt. It may be appropriate to treat the plan with three degrees of size commensurate with the scope of the epidemic spread illustrates the degree of (a) of the plan for the best and the degree of probability (c) of the plan for the worst. The degree of (b) ought to reflect the most likely. Should be prepared scenarios commensurate with the degree of each of these grades.

Despite the announcement by the Ministry of Health that there are national plans to tackle the disease in case of an outbreak of epidemic, but that the first Mhoshrat the existence of such plans is to be known to all the organs of the State and civil society institutions and local press and media, and the stages of the implementation of these plans and scenarios have been the experiences of many that there should be centers for disaster management or crisis in all public institutions and civil and private, whether the central or local level, and that all staff have been trained to implement these plans so that they can work and coordination with others from the first moment to announce the beginning of the epidemic. The party believes that the government has reached this level of preparation so far.

The party emphasizes the importance of the state dealing with the preparation and implementation of this plan, the concept of pan-national, as the State in its approach to manage this disaster must understand the importance of identifying priorities from the perspective of citizens, whether of the shooter to maintain human life and to contain human losses as much as possible, or maintain one of the important industries in Egypt, the poultry industry, which have much direct impact on the provision of food to low-income and economics of the business community, with the same degree of importance to deal with the potential affected industries, tourism, aviation and export the extent of the epidemic in Egypt.

The party sees the need to adopt the plan on a range of different nuances of the main axes.

First - the availability of information, experiences and possibilities in Egypt and Egypt and the outside world, through:

- The exchange of information among States on the development of disease and patterns of emerging viral disease.
- Determine the terms of the emergence of the disease and also periods of international siege.
- Re-examination of the geographic and demographic Egypt in order to identify areas most likely to spread of epidemic disease and determine how to contain and isolate these areas to contain the virus and eliminate it.
- Making use of technology in the upgrading of laboratories and factories.
Secondly - the medical setting:
- Design of a statistical number of people expected on the level of local units and, accordingly, determine the number of medical units required to be provided at the level of the Republic.
- Provision of doses and basic raw materials in large quantities, as well as medical supplies from the diagnosis and care, prevention and treatment.
- Preparation of training courses to deal with the health units may face crises.
- Training on prevention and treatment.
III - awareness-raising campaigns for citizens:
- And the potential seriousness of the disease transmissible between humans.
- Health procedures to be followed to reduce the chance of infection.
Tech and is used in visual media campaigns, schools, clubs and youth centers, along with relying on civil society organizations.
IV - Management services sectors and the economy in different circumstances, such as:
- Absenteeism of the workforce may range from 40% to 60%.
- Decrease in supply and demand by up to 50%.
- Restrictions on the movement of international transport and adverse impact on the movement of import to meet the needs commodity and production in Egypt.
- The collapse of export and tourism.
V. - to contain the spread of the disease, in particular:
- Procedures to be developed to regulate human traffic to and from the affected areas.
- How to deal with patients and other patients in the areas affected to a.