Calls for a mass vaccination campaign against meningitis

[I believe this is Kuwait, but I'm not 100% sure. Just imagine if this was an infectious human-to-human H5N1 strain....]

Minister of Health: 6 cases of meningitis detected and 10 thousand Tamana is no need for concern

In the details have assured the Health Minister Mustafa Al-Shamali citizens and residents that the cases infected with meningitis under control, a simple cases does not exceed 6 cases since 2011 2012, emphasizing that they are less than the global averages very much as the global rate starts from 10 cases per 100 thousand.

He noted that cases receive treatment in hospitals and the Ministry of Health as there are in the case of Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital and the other in the morning and another in Amiri and Farwaniya.

He denied that there is a tendency to close the Farwaniya Hospital by order of the World Health Organization, stressing that the hospital had a fully functioning there is no need to close it.

He said «that the meninges are imported from abroad and Tamana To date, 10 thousand cases and vaccinations are available in sufficient quantities and there is no need for concern».

We do not have intensive care patients to receive the meningitis
...Medical sources in the Farwaniya Hospital confirmed in a statement to «News» that the isolation rooms in the Farwaniya Hospital were filled with no room for the introduction of any other patients only admitted to the wings of the public, especially as the hospital of communicable diseases refuses to receive patients from the Farwaniya the pretext of the lack of intensive care,

Seems to be treated and the Ministry of Health with cases of meningitis, which began to spread in hospitals, proved the correctness of the report prepared by WHO Consultant Dr. Ahmed Ramadan, when he visited the country in 2010 to assess the public health situation in the country, which alone in «News» published last week, which confirmed the absence of any policy in the ministry of emergency to deal with any health emergency, and this is what happened with the Ministry of Health at this time in dealing with the start of the spread of meningitis, which we believe that the reason for the spread due to the expatriate Indian entered the country in the history of 19 of December, and were admitted to hospital in 20 of the last month to generate new cases were distributed to hospitals in Farwaniya, Mubarak Al-Kabeer and Amiri, and which won them at least two deaths at the moment which was be announced in the media, including the «God knows», and the cases were diagnosed, including waiting for diagnostic laboratory have to make sure the injury or not.

The public health emergency an important element threatens the stability of the overall health of the community, where occurred in the past few years, many health problems that are a real threat to public health «such as flu Alkhnazin birds SARS», which requires a response to such events the availability of a contingency plan is used as a particularly If this emergency affecting the whole community, but the issue of «meningitis» Unveiling of the Ministry of Health in dealing with them and that the absence of a policy to deal with such an incident, especially since the development of some medical staff in hospitals «heartbreaking» for not providing the necessary vaccines for the prevention most of them they said in a statement to «News».

-snip-

They said: There are no contingency plans in hospitals to cope with the «event», which started easily passed from hospital to hospital, where the situation in these hospitals «Saib» which caused great concern and bewilderment for patients and visitors who preferred some of them out and not to visit the hospital discovered the « Meningitis »reducing the proportion of reviewers for these hospitals, and some preferred to resort to private.

And called for medical staff and the Ministry of Health redress and protection from the epidemic, and not throwing as a «scapegoat» for dealing with patients without protection or incentives, as well as develop plans to address the «most pollution» Great, which began to spread and threaten the health security in the country.

Medical sources familiar confirmed in a statement to «News» that the Ministry of Health to speed up the formation of a national committee or competent to fight this epidemic, and carry out mass vaccination of all members of the community similar to the campaigns of the former occurred in the past years, as well as vaccination of all technical personnel, medical and administrative hospitals to immunize the risk of infection.