Morocco forms an emergency unit for the bird flu Casablanca –Youssra Moustafa The Moroccan Minister of Health al-Hussein al-Wardi recently formed a medical and veterinary emergency unit, with specialists on the level of his ministry, in preparations to face any potential return of the bird flu or swine flu.
According to informed sources, the unit was formed within the framework of the necessary preventive procedures taken by his ministry through increasing the control over the imported chicken food from Europe as well as meat to avoid the entry of the disease to Morocco. This is after the notable decrease in temperature with the beginning of winter and the appearance of the natural disasters and their impact on the animal and human health and also to the environment.
The same sources said the unit will hold intensive high level meetings within the next days to study the international developments of this disease, in cooperation with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and complete coordination with all the concerned ministerial sectors to make available the needed equipment and mechanisms for the required analysis in addition to making available the necessary medicine known as Tamiflu.