Monday, December 13, 2010

Egypt- A press conference tomorrow, the status information about the swine flu crisis

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 15:22


Dr. Majid Othman, head of Center for Information and Decision Support
Mona Zia

The Center on Information and Decision Support, under the chairmanship of the Council of Ministers held a press conference, tomorrow, Tuesday, meeting room management and coordination of crisis and pandemic influenza, and to assess the lessons learned from crisis management and pandemic influenza emerging A/H1N1, known as swine flu, and pandemic avian influenza A/H5N1 .

Attend the meeting, David Nabarro, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations High Commissioner for food security and nutrition, senior UN coordinator for pandemic influenza A/H1N1 and avian influenza (A/H5N1), in addition to a number of the members of the central operations room to manage the crisis and pandemic flu information center and support the decision-making, and representatives of ministries and relevant state and civil society organizations, as well as some representatives of United Nations organizations working Arab Republic of Egypt.

The meeting will discuss a number of topics, including evaluation of response to the crisis of the sectors concerned and the swine flu pandemic and avian flu, and national efforts to assess and draw lessons learned from dealing with the crisis and how to use them in planning to cope with any possible epidemics.

The Centre has been formed in 2009 immediately after an outbreak of swine flu and its spread worldwide, operation room, a central has the follow-up of the disease and developments and the extent of spread at the level of the Republic, The Chamber of follow-up to the situation within the provinces and coordinate with them before the onset of the first case in Egypt.

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