Sunday, May 10, 2009

Instructed hospitals not to the announcement of the cases of swine flu

09/May/09

Hospitals received the diets at the level of the Republic, yesterday, a circular from the Ministry of Health carries the words "secret" yesterday warned of the Declaration on the arrival of any infected or suspected cases of bird flu virus, swine flu, in a move designed not to provoke a state of panic among the Egyptians, and to promote an atmosphere of trust After the World Health Organization warned of the possibility of the transformation of this virus to a pandemic.

This comes after the hospital, medical sources told the rain that the hospital had received a positive case of bird flu to pigs of a certain Arab Hosni Mohamed Abdel-Razzaq was admitted to hospital last Thursday evening, where he was admitted to the transmission Abbasiyah.

And recommends that the circular, the doctors in the case of suspected cases of swine flu to write in the report attached to the patient's ticket to a regular flu is another report which demonstrated the true diagnosis of the disease, and to notify the Ministry of Health immediately, with a blood sample for the suspect in the laboratory for analysis in the central Cairo, the factor "Nmro 3" of the freedom of the American Hospital in Cairo, Abbasid, taking all the precautions necessary preventive Mkhaltin of the suspect died.

The statement calls, doctors to avoid making statements to the media about the existence of a suspected infected, or inform them of the results of any tests carried out on patients, and threatens violators with instructions to investigate the assignment immediately, if any leaked information on cases of suspected disease.

The issuance of this circular, synchronized with the government to deny discovery of cases of swine flu infection in Egypt, known in short as "The 1 H 1" in Egypt, and Anas Al-Fiqi and Information Minister, said that the deployment of some private newspapers is not true and totally false.

He stressed that it must be addressed by all the print media and audio-visual and electronic utmost transparency and credibility and caution of a slide at the turn of the promotion of the rumors would create panic and confusion among the citizens.

And Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, spokesman of the Ministry of Health that there was no positive case of bird infected pigs so far, all cases of suspected mortgage each examination, and said he would be punished both confirmed the existence of such a situation occasioned by the confusion and panic among the citizens, calling for not following the rumors.

For its part, denied the fulfillment of Dr. Atta, director of specialized central laboratory of the Ministry of Health is responsible for screening samples suspected to be infected swine flu, have been a documented case of a positive in Egypt until this moment.

She pointed out that any suspected case is to enter any government or private hospital or even through the quarantine samples immediately after the shift to the central laboratory to be examined by the lab finished particular.

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hattip Helblindi

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