#Egypt: "Abaza" for "mountain": the plan to combat bird flu will cost 4 million pounds

25/01/2011 16:00 GMT

The Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, the new plan to combat bird flu in the governorates, the ministry has the final plan preparation of the memorandum, which will be sent to the Minister of Health Dr. Hatem Chairman of the Committee High bird flu, at a cost estimated at 4 million pounds.

And discussed the minister Amin Abaza, at a meeting held on Monday afternoon and was attended by Dr. Saad Nassar, Dr. Mohammad Mustafa, head of the Garhi General for Veterinary Services, Dr. Suhair Hassan, head of the Central Administration for Preventive Medicine and the plan put forward students quickly sent to the Ministry of Health.

The Minister of Health Dr. Hatem had been requested in the Committee's meeting last November, a new vision to combat the disease, in his capacity as current chairman of the Committee, and the form of the Minister of Agriculture appointed a committee to develop a vision, headed by Dr. Saad Nassar, Advisor to the Minister, Dr. Mohammad Mustafa Garhi President of the General Authority for Veterinary Services, Dr. Suheir Hassan, head of the Central Administration for Preventive Medicine, Dr.. Mona Mehrez Director of Central Laboratory for the control of poultry production and others and discussed and amended before being submitted to the Supreme Committee to Combat Bird Flu.

And Oodat Ministry of Agriculture several steps to combat all the parties concerned, where the cost plan, the police receiving reports of cases of suspicion and the decisions of closure of the farms of the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine, and the provision of security of adequate and appropriate to the capacity of the farm so that no less than military and watchman of the farm less than 10 thousand birds for the duration of the stone and even Rod the result of analysis, as well as secure the transfer of birds and equipment in sealed cars to landfill.

The Ministry of Agriculture of Inquiry should be 22 thousand breeding farm with 16 counties of the Republic, where it is through active monitoring of the disease in villages and hamlets, and hamlets.

The plan was drawn up a new role for units of local Ministry of Environment, as given to them to receive communications Bhlat suspicion or resolutions of the closure of farms, and in the event of being a positive outcome to the process of execution of the farm and the provision of cars and Allauadr and lime, and advises the General Authority for Veterinary Services not directed by bird bad and be dealt with burial if the situation soil allow it.

The plan called for the confiscation of the Ministry of Environment and dead birds and sick of waterways, roads, and the punishment provided by the law of the environment on the perpetrator of such offense.

According to the plan, commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Health, immediate reporting of Veterinary Medicine in the current suspicion of human and not make sure an infection, so as to enable the veterinary trace the cause of injury and taking samples of bird mixing, and received reports of veterinary medicine in cases of injury to birds and to check out the sampling of people in contact .

According to the plan have called the plan of the General Authority for Veterinary Services to follow up and implementation of safety standards is vital in the farms and the continued health of the birds in the farms, and technical supervision of the execution and to inform the authorities cases of suspected and was escorted by a doctor Central Laboratory for the withdrawal of samples from the birds, and failed to plan the role of the Central Laboratory for the control of poultry production to accompany the physician to pull samples and reporting the outcome of the examination.

According to the plan, the General Union of Poultry Producers have an important role in the notification of the systematic and continuous preparation and distribution of places of soothing day-old chicks and one linked to the distribution of chicks to apply the conditions necessary for the safety of bio-and requiring large companies to open outlets of the birds chilled and frozen and activate the role of extension especially for owners of small farms guidance standard Biosecurity and expand Chamber membership in the European Union through the links educators.