WHO to send extra swine flu medicines to Azerbaijan

The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent to Azerbaijan extra Tamiflu sufficient for treatment of 38,700 people for swine flu, project coordinator of WHO office in Azerbaijan Elkhan Gasimov said.

He said the major A/H1N1 (swine flu) medicines were brought to Azerbaijan at the end of last week.

“WHO did not send medicines only to Azerbaijan. There are other countries in this list, too,” he said.

Elkhan Gasimov said in May WHO sent Tamiflu to Azerbaijan for treatment of 10,000 people.

The first part of the vaccines against the swine flu will be brought to the country late in November – early in December.

Nearly 170,000 doses of vaccines (2 percent of the population) will be brought to Azerbaijan.

/APA/