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Ukraine- H1N1 Outbreak October 27 2009 - November 30 2009
In general, he said, Ukraine 250 000 people suffering from SARS and avian influenza, of which 15 000 were hospitalized, 17 - in intensive care. Also Intensive Care is out by a factor of 10.
Re: Ukraine- Pandemic Influenza - Ministry of Health says 255,000 cases & 67 deaths
Ukraine Says 67 People Die From Unspecified Flu Virus (Update1)
By Kateryna Choursina and Halia Pavliva
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- At least 67 people have died in an epidemic of flu in Ukraine that has infected 255,000, the country?s first deputy health minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets said.
A total of 15,000 people are being treated at hospitals, Lazoryshynets said at a press conference in Kiev today. The country has sent suspected swine flu samples to the U.K. for testing, he said, declining to say when results are expected.
Lazoryshynets said the government has registered 22 cases of suspected swine flu. He declined to comment on which influenza strain is responsible for the deaths. Ukraine has asked the U.S., the European Union, NATO and neighbors for anti- flu drugs. Poland and Slovakia sent protective masks and Roche Holding AG?s drug Tamiflu to Ukraine after President Viktor Yushchenko said the country couldn?t fight an outbreak of pandemic influenza alone, a statement from the government said.
Health ministry: Sixty-seven people die of flu in Ukraine
Today at 14:45 | Interfax-Ukraine
Sixty-seven people have now died of flu and acute respiratory infections in Ukraine, according to First Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets.
He said at a briefing on Monday that 255,000 patients with flu and acute respiratory infections have been registered so far, and 15,000 of them in hospital, including 170 in intensive care units.
Lazoryshynets said that the Health Ministry had bought 67,000 doses of Tamiflu and received another 60,000 from the World Health Organization.
Moreover, 300,000 doses of Tamiflu were delivered from Switzerland to Ukraine in the early hours of Monday, on the basis of agreement reached between Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko and Health Minister Vasyl Kniazevych. This amount will be enough to treat patients for a month, he said.
Official Figures for the region in question Ivano-Frankivsk
Day Hospital, Intensive Care, Dead
Yesterday 28091 1293 39 8
Today 36099 2531 66 12
I've created a spreadsheet from the latest update with full details for all regions. It was done quickly and I've left the text boxes with both original language and English translation via Google). Let me know if anyone finds any error in the procedure.
Re: Ukraine- Pandemic Influenza - Ministry of Health says 255,000 cases & 67 deaths
In Ukraine there is no epidemic of swine flu
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko urged not to confuse the flu epidemic А/H1N1 with ordinary flu epidemic and assured that the swine flu epidemic in Ukraine.
"It's not like we talk today, which is the epidemic of swine flu. Just wonder that politicians and high officials enjoy such phrases. We have a regular epidemic of influenza, accompanied by a small number of cases clarified laboratory" California "flu" - she said at the meeting with manufacturers of medical equipment and drugs.
However, Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets before it was announced that Ukraine from a flu epidemic 67 people died.
The root of all deaths, according to the official, is exactly AH1N1 influenza virus, and officially and definitively confirmed 22 of his cases.
In turn, Tymoshenko urged politicians not to speculate on the subject of influenza, and not to create around this artificial boom. She said that today all epidemiological indicators are lower than in previous years (both in terms of morbidity and mortality indicators).
"However, our government takes such epidemics more responsibly, and we want to protect life and health" - added said.
She stressed that the government has since the spring began to prepare for combat disease.
Re: Ukraine - H1N1 outbreak - Outline, summaries, official news
Ukraine's Health Ministry confirmed 67 deaths from flu
Kiev. November 2. INTERFAX-UKRAINE - The Ukraine has already recorded 67 deaths from flu and SARS, formally confirmed 22 cases of influenza A/H1N1, said at a press briefing on Monday, Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets.
According to him, to date, registered in Ukraine 255 thousand ill SARS and influenza, 15 thousand of which are located in hospitals, including 170 people - in the ICU.
The first deputy minister stressed that today in Ukraine, as well as worldwide, the epidemic of influenza, complicated and unpredictable. "
Press Service of the Ministry of Health previously reported that the number of deaths from the flu epidemic in Ukraine as of Sunday night was 60 people.
Total number of cases of influenza and acute respiratory disease rose to 191 thousand people, including 83 thousand children. Hospitalized for more than 7 thousand people. Of these, 123 people are in the intensive care unit, noted in the message.
Later on Monday, the first vice-premier of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov said that as of the morning on November 2 in the Ukraine against influenza and SARS have died 64 people, appealed for help 191 thousand people, in addition, 7.5 thousand people were hospitalized.
Replying to a question about whether the different statistics on mortality from influenza and pneumonia in recent years, VA Lazoryshynets said that in general, the picture in the western regions is not significantly different.
Thus, in 2008 in Lvov from pneumonia deaths of 245 people, in Ternopil - 89 in Ivano-Frankivsk - 88.
V. Lazoryshynets also said that Ukraine has officially confirmed 22 cases of influenza A/H1N1.
According to first deputy minister, at the moment there is no vaccine against this type of influenza, but the Health Ministry is negotiating the purchase of these vaccines abroad.
In particular, according to the deputy minister, currently several vaccines are in the process of registration in Ukraine.
V. Lazoryshynets recalled that the Ministry of Health has purchased 67 thousand doses of the drug Tamiflu and another 60 thousand received from the Ministry of Health.
In addition, on Monday night delivered to Ukraine from Switzerland 300 thousand doses of Tamiflu, which is a one-month supply for treatment.
But V. Lazoryshynets noted that the drug "Tamiflu" is not a preventive tool, and is used only for treatment when the patient first signs of the disease.
Информационное агентство Интерфакс-Казахстан - компания в структуре международной информационной группы Interfax Information Services - работает на рынке политической и экономической информации Казахстана с октября 1996 года
She said that today all epidemiological indicators are lower than in previous years (both in terms of morbidity and mortality indicators).
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That last bit is definitely incorrect as the Health Ministry put out a bulletin almost two weeks ago that the epidemic threshold had been crossed in the Ternopil Region on 20th October. Politicians might claim that this has just jumped out at them but their own surveillance system spotted it much earlier.
Re: Ukraine- Pandemic Influenza - Ministry of Health says 255,000 cases & 67 deaths
Ukraine in panic over swine flu; WHO team visits
November 2, 2009 - 10:06am
By YANA SEDOVA and SIMON SHUSTER
Associated Press Writers
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine is in a panic about swine flu, with officials closing schools, imposing travel restrictions and limiting public gatherings. Yet many suspect that politics, not health issues, are behind the uproar.
The World Health Organization said Monday there is no evidence that Ukraine's outbreak is particularly severe, leading some political analysts to say Ukraine's politicians are using the swine flu scare to earn political points ahead of the country's presidential election in January.
"Right now all the candidates are weighing their political options, looking around for a theme, and this is a very hot topic right now. The panic is there, and they are acting on it," said Konstantin Bondarenko, director of the Gorshenin Institute, a political think tank.
On Monday, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko dramatically met a Swiss shipment of anti-viral drugs at the Kiev airport. Last week, her main rival, President Viktor Yushchenko, said 48 people had died of flu and thousands were infected.
The health minister, Vasyl Knyazevich, warned on Friday that nationwide quarantines could be imposed as the virus is spreading "extremely fast."
On Monday, his ministry said 67 people have died of flu, but it did not specify how many of deaths were related to swine flu. In any case, that is a tiny number in a country like Ukraine, which has a population of 40 million.
Worldwide, outbreaks of the regular seasonal flu claim 50,000 lives each year.
At the government's request, the World Health Organization has sent a team to help Ukraine deal with the outbreak.
"But this is not an indication that the situation is severe," said WHO spokeswoman Liuba Negru. "The information we have gotten (from the government), we have to double-check it and make sure it is real evidence-based information."
Bondarenko said Tymoshenko has the most to lose from public sentiment over the outbreak, as state health officials answer to her.
"This is the supply that will reliably protect Ukraine," Tymoshenko said of the shipment of 650,000 doses of Tamiflu, ITAR-Tass news agency reported. Her government plans to increase its hoard of the drug with another 300,000 doses, she added.
The January election is a pivotal vote which could overturn the 2004 Orange Revolution that swept a pro-Western government to power.
Viktor Yanukovych, the Regions' Party candidate for the presidency, has not yet commented on the swine flu uproar. Yanukovych, who was beaten in 2005 by Yushchenko, is leading in the polls with a platform that emphasizes closer ties with Russia.
During the past five years of Yushchenko's presidency, relations with Moscow reached historic lows. Yushchenko's ratings have fallen to single digits in the wake of the economic crisis, which hit Ukraine hard, and years of political gridlock with Tymoshenko.
Re: Ukraine - H1N1 outbreak - Outline, summaries, official news
Ukraine in panic over swine flu; WHO team visits
By YANA SEDOVA and SIMON SHUSTER
Associated Press Writers
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KIEV, Ukraine ? Ukraine is in a panic about swine flu, with officials closing schools, imposing travel restrictions and limiting public gatherings. Yet many suspect that politics, not health issues, are behind the uproar.
The World Health Organization said Monday there is no evidence that Ukraine's outbreak is particularly severe, leading some political analysts to say Ukraine's politicians are using the swine flu scare to earn political points ahead of the country's presidential election in January.
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"Right now all the candidates are weighing their political options, looking around for a theme, and this is a very hot topic right now. The panic is there, and they are acting on it," said Konstantin Bondarenko, director of the Gorshenin Institute, a political think tank.
On Monday, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko dramatically met a Swiss shipment of anti-viral drugs at the Kiev airport. Last week, her main rival, President Viktor Yushchenko, said 48 people had died of flu and thousands were infected.
The health minister, Vasyl Knyazevich, warned on Friday that nationwide quarantines could be imposed as the virus is spreading "extremely fast."
On Monday, his ministry said 67 people have died of flu, but it did not specify how many of deaths were related to swine flu. In any case, that is a tiny number in a country like Ukraine, which has a population of 40 million.
Worldwide, outbreaks of the regular seasonal flu claim 50,000 lives each year.
At the government's request, the World Health Organization has sent a team to help Ukraine deal with the outbreak.
"But this is not an indication that the situation is severe," said WHO spokeswoman Liuba Negru. "The information we have gotten (from the government), we have to double-check it and make sure it is real evidence-based information."
Bondarenko said Tymoshenko has the most to lose from public sentiment over the outbreak, as state health officials answer to her.
"This is the supply that will reliably protect Ukraine," Tymoshenko said of the shipment of 650,000 doses of Tamiflu, ITAR-Tass news agency reported. Her government plans to increase its hoard of the drug with another 300,000 doses, she added.
The January election is a pivotal vote which could overturn the 2004 Orange Revolution that swept a pro-Western government to power.
Viktor Yanukovych, the Regions' Party candidate for the presidency, has not yet commented on the swine flu uproar. Yanukovych, who was beaten in 2005 by Yushchenko, is leading in the polls with a platform that emphasizes closer ties with Russia.
During the past five years of Yushchenko's presidency, relations with Moscow reached historic lows. Yushchenko's ratings have fallen to single digits in the wake of the economic crisis, which hit Ukraine hard, and years of political gridlock with Tymoshenko.
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Associated Press writer Simon Shuster reported from Moscow.
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KIEV, November 2 (RIA Novosti) - An outbreak of swine flu, which hit Ukraine last week, has claimed the lives of 22 people, the country's deputy health minister said on Monday.
Vasil Lozoryshynets said 22 out of a total 67 deaths from flu or acute respiratory illness have been confirmed as caused by the H1N1 virus.
The deputy minister said 255,000 flu cases had been reported in the country as of Monday, with 15,000 receiving treatment at a hospital and 170 being admitted to intensive care departments.
The government has imposed quarantines in nine western provinces to curb the spread of swine flu, which originated in the Tirnopol Region.
All education establishments in the capital, Kiev, were closed on Monday until further notice due to the flu pandemic. Wearing medical masks has been a must in all catering places, shops and social services facilities across Ukraine since Friday.
President Viktor Yuschenko has requested help from other countries. Late on Sunday, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and other top officials met a cargo of 300,000 doses of the Tamiflu antiviral medication arriving from Switzerland at Borispol airport.
However, the premier moved to calm panic on Monday saying there is no swine flu pandemic in the country at the moment.
"I want to underline that we are having a seasonal flu epidemic, which occurs every year," Tymoshenko told a government meeting also attended by heads of pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment producers.
Tymoshenko criticized drug stores for shortages of medicines and blamed "media hysteria" and politicians' populist statements for causing the deficit. She pledged further measures to curb flu, as well as panic.
Tymoshenko is a front-runner in the January 17 presidential election in the ex-Soviet state.
Yushchenko addresses nation, journalists about flu epidemic
Today at 08:23 Obviously we are facing a difficult situation and today the effective assessment, accurate information on the sickness rate in not only the three regions but in the whole of Ukraine is an important issue.
I have instructed the Minister for Health to develop a unified database, to prepare the official statistics, which would in real time inform primarily the Ministry of Health, the Prime Minister and the Government on the situation with the epidemic in all regions of Ukraine. Unfortunately there was no such database before today. We need to conduct the cumulative, effective monitoring.
We have a Flu Center, which employs only one person. My request of May to the Prime Minister to allocate funds to establish a lab, to "arm" us in the situation, when the world is smitten by the epidemic of this flu, to date has not been answered. That is why only one person is working in the Flu Center. This is the center, which is supposed to conduct monitoring in whole of Ukraine, the center, which operates under the auspices of the Ministry for Health and of the Government. I have addressed the Prime Minister with the request to urgently allocate appropriate funds - 50 million hryvnyas for the center to function.
So, the first question is the fullness of the information and establishment of full control over spreading of respiratory desists over the territory of Ukraine, the regime of real informing of the public per region and the country as the whole.
Separately I have instructed Regional Administrations to established info-centers for the population of every region to avoid panic or disinformation.
Question number two, which I think is the result of failures in the question number one, particularly the failure to establish the Flu Center, is determining the type of the virus. Today only one thing pulls the Health Ministry and effective system of actions back – determining the type of the virus. In many cases this question remains unanswered. There are even experts, who suppose it is another modified virus - the differentiated virus between the "bird flu" and the "pig flu". But only the operative analysis would answer that. The flu, which the risk group is suffering from, should be identified.
Yesterday I have instructed the Ministry of Health to formulate and present to the meeting of the Government a real action plan, which the entire government team, all local authorities and local government are to be guided by. That means the Ministry should review the national pandemic plan and, taking into account current challenges, to bind it to specific territories and Ukraine in general. The Health Ministry should clearly formulate mandatory recommendations that should guide the citizens of Ukraine, specialists and experts.
Further – be it premises restrictions, or the introduction of quarantine restrictions, or preventive measures, or vaccination, or isolation - it should be a part of a single national Ukrainian plan, which I hope I will hear at today's extraordinary session of the NSDC dedicated to the issue. The plan should include a set of quarantine measures and I will get an expert opinion on the measures already undertaken by the Government. Whether they are sufficient, or whether the process should be developed and extended. The measures we are to apply at the border, the procedure of citizens’ and transport movement between the areas. The supervision over full provision of the population with remedies. And if something is missing, buying and allocating it to the appropriate health care facilities. Providing medical departments with the number of beds necessary in case of the worst possible scenarios. I have instructed the Minister of Defense to mobilize all operational mobile hospitals so they could be deployed tomorrow in the areas, where they are needed the most.
The supply of medicines that we currently have allows us to provide help to all those in need. I have addressed international institutions and partner countries so if the situation develops in such a manner and with such dynamics that it would threaten our capabilities, we will certainly get the required amount of drugs needed for treatment and prevention. At present the required number of medicines has been distributed to the affected people - this is the latest report of the Health Minister.
I am sure we will be able to deal with this disaster.
I would like to separately address you, dear journalists, because objective and responsible information, I think, helps the country and specialists to deal with this problem. So I ask you to refrain from agitating the country with unverified information and from using the information of dubious nature and the information that is untrue. More than ever before we now must be Ukrainians, help the nation with full responsibility to meet this problem, have a single national plan, support each other. Obviously, in the next couple of days we will assess why the epidemic was more acute in Ukraine than in any other country of European community.
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