Combined efforts of all needed to tackle swine flu
Sunday, 13 September 2009
Experts at a views-exchange meeting Saturday stressed the need for combined efforts of all to tackle the spreading of swine flu, reports UNB.
"We shouldn't get panicked, as awareness can help us to stay away from the H1N1 virus," Dr M Mushtuq Husain, senior scientific officer of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), told the programme.
Shasthya Andolon, a voluntary body, organised the views-exchange meeting titled 'Swine Flu and Our Duty' at the National Press Club in the city.
The meeting was addressed, among others, by former president of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) Rasid I Mahbub, Shasthya Andolon co-convener Dr Farida Akhter and trustee of Gonoshasthya Kenra Dr Zafar Ullah Chowdhury.
Dr M Mushtuq Husain said that the H1N1-affected people need not use expensive capsule, which is being sold at Tk 180 per piece. "Only vulnerable patients should use this capsule," he said.
He urged the authorities concerned to come forward to make the people living in remote areas aware about the virus, as they are vulnerable to the pandemic.
He also advised the common people to wash their hands when they get back home from their workplaces and not to use mask. "Mask will not save us from Swine Flu; instead it would welcome the virus."
Dr Rasid apprehended that the virus might spread among the ultra poor people at an alarming rate. "So, the government needs to take immediate steps to aware these people about the spread of the virus."
"We shouldn't get panicked, as awareness can help us to stay away from the H1N1 virus," Dr M Mushtuq Husain, senior scientific officer of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), told the programme.
Shasthya Andolon, a voluntary body, organised the views-exchange meeting titled 'Swine Flu and Our Duty' at the National Press Club in the city.
The meeting was addressed, among others, by former president of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) Rasid I Mahbub, Shasthya Andolon co-convener Dr Farida Akhter and trustee of Gonoshasthya Kenra Dr Zafar Ullah Chowdhury.
Dr M Mushtuq Husain said that the H1N1-affected people need not use expensive capsule, which is being sold at Tk 180 per piece. "Only vulnerable patients should use this capsule," he said.
He urged the authorities concerned to come forward to make the people living in remote areas aware about the virus, as they are vulnerable to the pandemic.
He also advised the common people to wash their hands when they get back home from their workplaces and not to use mask. "Mask will not save us from Swine Flu; instead it would welcome the virus."
Dr Rasid apprehended that the virus might spread among the ultra poor people at an alarming rate. "So, the government needs to take immediate steps to aware these people about the spread of the virus."