Ukraine
The number of cases of influenza and ARI has exceeded a quarter of a million
02/Nov/09
In Ukraine, from 67 people died of influenza
The Ministry of Health stated that registered in Ukraine 255 thousand patients with influenza and ARI , 15 thousand of them hospitalized.
According to Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazorishintsa in the ICU was 170 patients, 67 men - have died (including 29 - in Lviv, 14 - in Ternopil, 12 - Ivano-Frankovsk region).
Lazoryshynets also noted that in Ukraine officially confirmed 22 cases of influenza A/H1N1. “Ukraine does not have a vaccine against pandemic influenza, but negotiations on deliveries of international organizations”, - he said.
However, Lazoryshynets emphasized that, according to WHO recommendations, if in the region identified a single case of disease caused by a virus A/N1N1, then the entire region, we treat the protocol precisely against this disease.
According to First Deputy Minister, the appropriate treatment protocol was developed by the Health Ministry and sent to the regions. Lazoryshynets also recalled that the Ministry of Health has purchased 67 thousand doses of Tamiflu and another 60 thousand received from the Ministry of Health.
In addition, during the night from Sunday to Monday, on the basis of agreements concluded by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs Peter Poroshenko and Health Minister Vasyl Knyazevich, Ukraine delivered from Switzerland 300 thousand doses of Tamiflu, which is a one-month supply for treatment.
This Lazoryshynets noted that the drug Tamiflu is not a preventive tool, and is used only for treatment when the patient first signs of disease.
However, at present, in Ukraine there is no vaccine against swine flu, but the Health Ministry is negotiating the purchase of these vaccines abroad. In particular, according to the deputy minister, currently several vaccines are in the process of registration in Ukraine.
Replying to a question about whether the different statistics on mortality from influenza and pneumonia in previous years, Lazoryshynets replied that in general, the picture in the western regions is not significantly different. Thus, in 2008 in Lviv from pneumonia deaths of 245 people, in Ternopil - 89 and in Ivano-Frankivsk - 88.
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Recall, on Friday in Ukraine confirmed its first cases of swine flu. After this, the Cabinet introduced a quarantine in the nine western areas.
Today, 2 November, First Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchinov said that the Government intends to consider the feasibility of November 2-3 quarantine in areas where it has not yet entered.
Ukraine’s leaders acknowledged that their forces to stop the spread of the epidemic can not, therefore, appealed for help to a number of countries, as well as to NATO and the EU.
http://korrespondent.net/tech/health/1013974
Ukraine
In Vinnitsa region recorded the first death from pneumonia
02/Nov/09
In Vinnitsa region since the introduction of quarantine recorded the first case of death from pneumonia.
According to an UNIAN correspondent, reported this at a press conference the chairman of the Vinnytsia Regional State Administration Oleksandr Dombrovsky.
“Unfortunately, we are forced to admit that last night in Tomashpilskoy District Hospital a woman died from pneumonia. All the tests made in this case does not establish that the woman could hurt influenza A/H1N1 », - he said.
Chairman of the Vinnytsia Regional State Administration reported that in the whole region recorded 49 patients with pneumonia. “We have a number of complex cases with pneumonia, which are now in hospitals. One case in Mogilev-Podolsky, one complicated case of pneumonia recorded in Kalinouski Lipovecká, Kryzhopol areas and two cases in Vinnitsa “, - he said.
A. Dombrowski also said that as at 12.00 am on November 2 in the Vinnitsa region did not reveal any cases of influenza A/H1N1. “Today in the Vinnitsa region, we have 408 hospitalized. Yesterday morning it was 399 today - 408. Epidemiological threshold is exceeded in Vinnitsa - 115.9 persons per 10 thousand population. In the rest of the field incidence in 2,5 times lower than the epidemic threshold “- he said.
In general, the Vinnytsia region as of November 2 has been officially registered 141 people sick flu normal shape, and about 3,8 thousand people have contacted the health facilities with symptoms of ARI.
http://www.unian.net/rus/news/news-344558.html