Egypt: Workshop to Promote Coordination Bird Flu Pandemic

Workshop to promote sectoral coordination to address the avian flu Hodeidah
27 / September / 2011
Hodeidah started today a workshop to strengthen sectoral coordination of cooperating community in the face of the implications of the avian influenza pandemic planning Office of Public Health and Population to maintain cooperation with the pandemic preparedness of the United Nations.

Seminar aims involving 40 participants from 16 governmental entity with a relationship for four days to develop plans for addressing the implications of the avian influenza pandemic and how to deal with and integrated into a unified plan and submit to the Ministry of Public Health and Population.


In the opening episode pointed Director of the Office of Public Health of the population to maintain Dr. Osman Hussein Baidhani and managing director of epidemiological surveillance and disease control, Dr. Sultan Maqtari to the importance of coordination between the relevant authorities to cooperate in the face of the implications of the avian influenza pandemic and the like pandemics, the other the fact that the bird flu cure for a disease and affect the health of society, economically and socially.

In the workshop reviewed a number of important points was the importance of strengthening ties between the actors involved to strengthen the coordination mechanism between the actors and the importance of involving the entire community to prepare and plan for the pandemic and how to involve the entire community and the importance of coordination between all sectors and preparedness at all levels locally and nationally, regionally and globally.

Also reviewed the risk caused by the outbreak of the avian influenza pandemic due to the sudden and significant shortages of personnel who are responsible for providing basic services and how to find alternatives that promote the continued delivery of basic services.