Some taking swine flu vaccines on their own

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Health Ministry has said that some Maldivians has been importing swine flu vaccines from abroad and using them and has said that it encourages such protective measures.

Ahmed Khaleel, Deputy Director-General at National Emergency Operation Center, speaking to Miadhu Daily said that the spread of the disease had been controlled but said that it does not mean we can relax the protective actions in the country.

He also said that to date 35 cases had been reported in the Maldives and one had died. Khaleel also said that since the pandemic had already come to the Maldives, what we shall do now is to reduce the spread of the disease and to treat the patients and normalize their health.

He also said that as the country will begin its new academic year next Sunday, as many had returned from vacations abroad and as 2000 expatriate teachers had come back to Maldives from vacations in their native countries, parents, teachers and students themselves should be very careful and more preparatory actions are needed.

Khaleel also said that they had asked through the Education Ministry, that teachers and students should not attend class if they are sick. Visiting Chinese foreign minister had pledged to provide swine flu vaccines from China this week, in a meeting with his counterpart in the Maldives, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed while Singapore had also made such pledges.

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