Doctors warn citizens about seasonal influenza
Two people have died because of the swine flu in Georgia in December, NCDC says. Photo: heritageseniorcommunities.com
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Seasonal influenza will peak between the end of January and February, announced officials from G. Zhvania Academic Clinic of Pediatry today.
Doctors urge patients with high temperature, frequent breathing and vomiting to refuse self-treatment and apply medical facilities on time.
Pediatrician Maia Kherkheulidze gives advice to parents to leave their children at home while having flu symptoms with high temperature, headache and vomiting.
We have a lot cases when parents take their children to the kindergartens despite high temperature, flu and cough…The main recommendation for caregivers is to ventilate rooms and follow hygiene standards, wash hands as often as possible and wear face masks ”, said Maia Kherkheulidze.
Amiran Gamkrelidze, Head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control and public Health said that the morbidity rate of seasonal influenza is 191 in 100,000 people, which is less than the same period of last year. His advice to the citizens is to vaccinate.
The Georgian Health Ministry announced that pregnant women and members of vulnerable groups will receive the antiviral medication Tamiflu free of charge with a doctor’s prescription.
A 30-year-old woman has died in Georgia’s western town of Chiatura yesterday, with the cause of death being an alleged viral disease.
Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), announced that there is no risk of a flu epidemic in Georgia.
The Georgian Health Ministry has announced that pregnant women and socially vulnerable individuals will receive antiviral medication Tamiflu free of charge upon doctor’s prescription.
The Georgian National Disease Control Centre has decided to reveal the statistics of flu in Georgia over the past 10 years to dispel speculations that 2018-2019 is an “exceptionally bad year” in terms of flu.
The amount of patients applying hospitals with flu symptoms have increased in the second week of January, announced the Head of National Disease Control Centre, Amiran Gamkrelidze today.
Only 95,000 doses of flu vaccine have been administered in Georgia since early October, though the government purchased 200,000 doses and encouraged at-risk groups and their families to receive the vaccine, head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze says.
Georgian health authorities have started seasonal anti-flu vaccination throughout the country, the Georgian Health Ministry announced on Monday.