Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Egypt: Menoufia High Committee to Combat Bird Flu #H5N1

High Committee to Combat Bird Flu Menoufia meeting yesterday was attended by Assistant Secretary General and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health and the Director of the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine, which reviewed the position of bird flu in the governorate and the actions that are taken during the current period and to be taken in the next stage to tackle the disease and prevent its spread.

For his part assigned advisor Ashraf Hilal, governor of Menoufia, the Supreme Committee to hold a monthly meeting to follow up preventive measures and ask the heads of local units to provide landfill and the work of rounds of a sudden on the farm, and freedom from routine procedures, and activating the work of the committees and the tightening campaign on the farm is licensed and rely on scientific solutions innovative to cope with the disease and the emphasis on fully equipping hospitals and providing isolation wards, doctors, trainers and rural outreach as well as to provide enough doses of Tamiflu for the treatment of any cases among citizens.

It is worth mentioning that since 2006, formed a group of committees in every local unit headed by the President of the local unit of traffic on the markets and farms and gather information to fight the virus and prevent its spread.

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