Gaza/West Bank: Press ban on reporting unofficial bird flu news

[Theresa42]

From the Palestinian News Agency (machine translated from Arabic):

The ban of spreading any information in the mass media around the injury by the bird flu

Gaza is 6-4 - 2006 WAFA - It banned the national committee of Al Tourae for the confrontation of the bird flu today at night, on the mass media the read and heard and visible is spreading any information they relate to the injury or the suspicion in the injury by the bird flu disease, except through the media spokesmen to the committee.

And came in the decision issued from doctor Bassem Naim the minister of health of the committee president, that it does not prevent spreading any information that relates to the education and the enlightenment from the disease and its complications, certain that all who violates that exposes himself for the legal responsibility.

And the decision declared, that the media spokesmen in the name of Al-Lgn they : in Gaza Strip : Dr. Ibrahim the mute - the Ministry of Agriculture is a mobile - 0599600608 telephones - 2840017 Dr. Amr Al Husseini - the Ministry of Health is a mobile - 0599714757 telephones - 2844882 and intThe West Bank : Dr. Asaad Rmlawi - the Ministry of Health, a mobile - 0599204205 telephones - 2409053, Dr. Azzam Tbila - the Ministry of Agriculture deputy is a mobile - 0599470540, a telephone - 2403320.

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[Bruce]

Re: Gaza/West Bank: Press ban on reporting unofficial bird flu news

Is it that bad already.

 

[DB]

Re: Gaza/West Bank: Press ban on reporting unofficial bird flu news

Well when you look at Egypt you have to assume that Isreal and Palestine are having similar problems.

 

[Theresa42]

Gaza/West Bank - no cases of bf in humans in Palestinian territories

Gaza/West Bank - no cases of bf in humans in Palestinian territories

Is it that bad already.

It's apparently so bad that they've felt it's time for an out-and-out De Nile...

From the Palestinian News Agency - machine translated from Arabic:

The minister of health confirms the non the certainty of any human injury by the bird flu disease

Gaza is 6-4-2006 WAFA - Doctor Bassem Naim, the minister of health, today confirmed, the non the certainty of any human injury by the bird flu disease in the Palestinian territories.

That came, through its presiding of a meeting for the health meeting, with the arrival of doctor Abdul Rahman Brqawi, the ministry general manager, and the doctor Youssef Awadallah, the general manager of the coordination between non-governmental organizations, and many of the representatives of my ministry the health and the agriculture and the environment, and the international organizations and the United Nations organizations and the civil enterprises.

And doctor Naim all the presenters of health service and competent authorities with the relation called for the continuation of cooperation and coordination and an exertion the efforts for the blockade of any states are a suspects, and doing measures necessary for the protection is from the disease.

And he stressed on the necessity of the integrated relation between all of the concerned parties, and the continuation of the meetings for the agreement on the mechanism of the work, and a creature a link with the citizens for their enlightenment with the accurate and health preventive information and raising the level of the health education.

And the minister Naim confirmed that to the bird flu disease, financial economic and artistic health and agricultural dimensions on the level of the concerned ministries and on the level of citizen and homeland, an octagonal the efforts that the concerned authorities exerted in previous period and until now.

And he called on all of the competent authorities for the support of the Ministry of Health in several of the fields, specially the provision of the necessary capabilities of the diagnosis and with the possible speed, and the laboratories reconstruction and the development of the capabilities by it.

By its role, Walid Shqoura the international cooperation general manager confirmed, on the importance of the continuous coordination between the health service presenters for the facilitation of the operation of the blockade of the disease and the exploitation of all of the available sources.

And I show the assembled, the situation image in Palestine for the bird flu disease and defining the foci that appeared in it, and an extent the readiness of the concerned ministries and with the direct relation for the dealing with the injuries, pointing that the execution of more than 250 thousand of the birds are in the Palestinian territories.

And the assembled agreed on the continuation of the meetings for the support of offering the possible aid and the cooperation for the response of the needs of the concerned authorities in the disease fighting field.

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