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The regional director of health in Kasserine, Abdul Ghani Al-Shaabani, announced that the Kasserine Regional Hospital had recorded from early January to Friday, February 15, 2019, 187 cases of measles infection and that samples had been taken and subjected to laboratory tests at Nicole University Hospital. 92 cases of this virus, taking precautions and sheltering the children's department of the regional hospital in a special wing.
Al-Shaabani said that all unvaccinated patients had been vaccinated against measles and had left the hospital after recovery, with the exception of seven cases still under surveillance: a single case of measles, an infant 3 months old with acute inflammation of the Breathing device, and appeared after 48 hours of children's shelter at the regional hospital, the symptoms of measles, which caused his death.
He added that the daily operations of cantonment and departure of measles patients to the pediatric hospital of Kasrin Regional Hospital, and that health facilities in the region had not been recorded according to the number of people infected, reported that all people with measles in the region had not been vaccinated against the virus and therefore constituted a vaccination campaign against him. Many rural areas.
Al-Shaabani called on all parents who had not practiced this vaccination and their children to go to the nearest health center as soon as possible, in addition to complying with the Ministry of Health's recommendations. case of rash and fever. The rest of the family, the school environment for five days from the beginning of the rash, washing hands with water and soap several times a day, the use paper tissues for coughing and sneezing, masks and constant heating of houses for half an hour a day.
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