New Swine Flu Cases in Kosovo
Pristina | 06 November 2009 | Petrit Collaku
Three Kosovo Serbs appeared to be have contracted swine flu. Their health situation is described as stable.
A 13 year-old girl was treated in Gracanica clinic and continued to undergo further medical checks in Mitrovica.
The second person is from Mitrovica and the third is from Gorazdevc, Peja/Pec.
“The deputy minister of health Nemanja Vujovic has visited today the clinic in Gracanica and said that they are safe,” Faik Hoti, spokesperson for the ministry of health told Balkan Insight.
Kosovo’s health ministry provided around 1,000 Tamiflu tablets to the clinic in Gracanica yesterday after receiving information that new cases of A H1N1 appeared in locations inhabited mainly by Serbs.
Hoti said that initially six people were suspected to be infected but after tests done in Serbia only three of them tested positive.
“Deputy Minister Vujovic has offered again the readiness of the ministry to provide necessary medical assistance, medicaments and protective material,” Hoti said.
The epidemiological situation in Kosovo remains calm and the authorities from the institute of public health are monitoring the situation every day, Hoti said. “I just came from the meeting with the director of public health institute who informed me the situation is calm and there are no new cases,” Hoti added.
Hoti said that there are around 30,000 doses of Tamiflu in Kosovo. the Ministry of Health is aiming to supply some 500,000 vaccines. Hoti claimed that there is no need for panic and the government is applying all necessary World Health Organisation recommendations.
