Via Kuwait Times :
" A seven-year-old child is currently undergoing treatment after contracting bacterial meningitis infection at the Intensive Care Unit of Al-Sabah hospital, said two senior Ministry of Health(MoH) officials on Thursday.
“There is one recorded case of infection with bacterial meningitis – a seven-year- old child who is currently receiving treatment at the ICU of Al-Sabah Hospital,” said Dr Yousuf Mendekar Director of Public Health Department to Al-Rai who was also able to receive a confirmation from the Manager Dr Abbas Ramadan. Furthermore, the same report published yesterday quotes the Dr Afrah Al-Sarraf Director of Al-Amiri Hospital as saying that one meningitis patient was receiving treatment at the hospital, reported Al-Rai.
Meanwhile, Al-Qabas daily reported yesterday that a 17-year-old Indian girl was admitted to Al-Sabah Hospital after contracting meningitis, while four citizens have been quarantined. It is not clear whether the Indian girl’s case is the same as the one mentioned by Dr Mendekar, that could have been inaccurately reported by Al-Qabas’ sources. Al-Qabas also reports quoting unnamed MoH sources about a patient who was discharged on Thursday from the Mubarak Hospital after being treated for meningitis."
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Kuwait : MOH reconfirms ‘meningitis not pandemic’
Via Kuwait Times :
" The Ministry of Health (MoH) recently issued a press release confirming a previous denial of a meningitis epidemic in Kuwait. The press release read:
“In view of recent media and social media news about meningitis cases in Kuwait, the Ministry of Health confirms that according to WHO regulations Kuwait is meningitis epidemic-free since a pandemic disease means the existence of ten cases per 100,000 people.
The news about WHO recommending the closure of health facilities and shopping centers in Kuwait are mere rumors, as confirmed by the WHO office in Cairo. Therefore there is no need for vaccination, except for those in direct contact with verified cases or suspected ones be it in staff accommodation or among medical and administrative staff in various health facilities.
It has been scientifically proven that the type of meningitis recently detected can only be transmitted through droplets of respiratory secretion during close contact such as kissing, sneezing, or coughing on someone, and cannot be spread by only breathing the air where a person with meningitis has been."
" The Ministry of Health (MoH) recently issued a press release confirming a previous denial of a meningitis epidemic in Kuwait. The press release read:
“In view of recent media and social media news about meningitis cases in Kuwait, the Ministry of Health confirms that according to WHO regulations Kuwait is meningitis epidemic-free since a pandemic disease means the existence of ten cases per 100,000 people.
The news about WHO recommending the closure of health facilities and shopping centers in Kuwait are mere rumors, as confirmed by the WHO office in Cairo. Therefore there is no need for vaccination, except for those in direct contact with verified cases or suspected ones be it in staff accommodation or among medical and administrative staff in various health facilities.
It has been scientifically proven that the type of meningitis recently detected can only be transmitted through droplets of respiratory secretion during close contact such as kissing, sneezing, or coughing on someone, and cannot be spread by only breathing the air where a person with meningitis has been."
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