Nicaragua Reactivates Health AH1N1 Emergency
Plan
Managua - Nicaragua has reactivated its
A/H1N1 emergency plan less than a month
after it ended due to a re-outbreak of the
influenza pandemic.
Nicaraguan Health Minister Guillermo
Gonzalez said President Daniel Ortega
decreed on Thursday a return to the sanitary
emergency plan, which would last 70 days,
and necessary actions would be taken to
prevent, control and lighten the impact of
the pandemic.
According to the decree, Gonzales will
establish a committee for A/H1N1 flu
pandemic in accordance with the General Law
of Health.
"We think it is important to reactivate the
emergency plan so we can carry out all the
necessary preventive measures, both in
communities and house by house," Gonzalez
said.
"Among the patients with risk factors are
pregnant women, obese people, asthmatics,
diabetics, people with chronic lung
diseases, patients with cancer and HIV," he
added.
There have been 821 infection cases,
including four deaths in the country,
according to the latest report by the Health
Ministry on Wednesday.
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