Monday, January 18, 2010

Egypt: Due to lack of demand for Health defer import 2 million doses of flu vaccine

Monday, January 18, 2010 - 16:57

Ministry of Health notified the company of Glasgow GlaxoSmithKline English stop importing 2 million doses of vaccine for swine flu virus, with a total of 5 million doses have contracted with the beginning of the ministry the company's production of the vaccine.

Attributed d. Hatem the Minister of Health the reason behind the postponement of import of 2 million doses of vaccine against swine influenza virus and to settle instead only 3 million doses of vaccine were imported from Glasgow GlaxoSmithKline English while measuring the response of groups targeted by vaccination him.

The Health Ministry identified the target groups of vaccination in the coming period workers vital sectors particularly those dealing with people, such as men's passports and traffic and transportation, and e-conductors as well as owners of patients with chronic diseases such as kidney, heart, liver, blood vessels, tumors, asthma, obesity, disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, blood diseases and HIV .

Dr. Abdel-Rahman Shahin, official spokesman of the Ministry of Health that the rest of the doses will be imported by the contractor to complete only 3 million doses of vaccine against the disease of swine influenza A manufacturer which has been contracted to supply the vaccine and the postponement of import of 2 million doses, while measuring the response of those groups for vaccination.

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