GCC health ministers meet Saturday on swine flu

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The meeting was reported by the Director General of the GCC Health Ministers’ Executive Council Dr. Tawfiq Khojah who said the officials would review plans to counter the possibility of the disease reaching the GCC region.

He added the officials would be addressed by GCC Secretary General Abdulrahman Al-Atiyyah as well as the Director of the Regional Office of the World Health Organization for East of Mediterranean Hussein Abdulrazaq Al-Jazaeri.

Readiness in terms of testing, detection, quarantine, and cooperation with the WHO are all to be discussed, the official noted, as well as strategic stockpile of drugs and coordination and linkage.

The official supported a call by Saudi Arabia and an offer to host a regional Arab scientific conference on swine flu in May.

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