On Monday World Health Organization said that it would set up an independent review of the response by next month to the national outbreak.
After being criticized of its role in declaring the global alert WHO said on Monday that it will set up independent review of the response to the national outbreak.
This international response will be specially inspected by a committee of 29 health experts and scientist. This committee has been formed by the UN health agency.
The first meeting has been planned to be held on 12 to 14 April. Keiji Fukuda special advise on pandemic influenza said that “in depth and broad review into the preparedness and the response to the current influenza pandemic”.
He also added that a better performance of the review will cause less confusion.
This idea would help the experts to determine the issues to deal with and whom to be questioned.
Late January WHO officials have responded to the criticism by promising that it will set up an independent review.
He also said that the virus is still active in the areas of Southeast Asia, west and central Africa and some cases in central and South America.
Swine flu has now reached 213 countries all over the world with more than 16,900 deaths.
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According a research report pregnant women who are affected by swine flu virus are 13 times more likely to become ill than the other women who all had been affected by the same virus.
H1N1 virus has put the pregnant women at a high risk for getting serious complications. This is because the immune system of the women will be less active during pregnancy. To study the relationship between the swine flu and pregnancy the researches took the medical records of 20 pregnant women and women who had given birth recently and have contracted the swine flu virus. And also the records of the women who have been hospitalized in the ICU between the months of June and August 2009. Of the total 209 women 30 of them were either pregnant or given birth recently, 57 were hospitalized in the ICU in Australia and 7 in New Zealand.
Of the women included in the case study pregnant women were at a high risk of getting admitted to ICU then the normal women who has contracted the swine flu virus. None of them have got their flu vaccine in spite of recommending that mothers have to get their flu shots.
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Millions of swine flu vaccine has been prepared by the World Health Organization to deliver to the developing countries.
Till now more than 4 million doses of swine flu vaccine has been delivered to about 17 countries. From the vaccine donated to WHO by the pharmaceutical companies and industrialized countries there are about 180 million doses of vaccine in stock.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said that nearly 95 developing countries have requested the vaccine. He also said that WHO has planned to distribute the vaccines to 25 countries in Africa, Central America and Eastern Europe.
WHO report further said that nearly 17,000 people have died of swine flu in 213 countries and union territories and the most active areas of the virus are in Southeast Asia and West Africa.
WHO also added that it has delivered the first shipment of vaccine to Cuba and Nigeria will receive about 2.8 million doses of swine flu vaccine.
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Activity of the swine flu remains low and the seasonal flu vaccine program is on full swing.
As per WHO (World Health Organization) report on March 12 2010 there was 16713 flu related deaths. And 16,000 laboratory confirmed cases were reported worldwide since the pandemic began in April 2009.
WHO is continuing to monitor the progress of the virus. Currently the most active areas of transmission are Southeast Asia and only limited data suggests that transmission seems to increase in parts of West Africa.
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The emergency committee of WHO decided on Tuesday that it was early to state that pandemic, which was announced on June, was the first to be worst from the past 40 years.
The 15 members who make confidential recommendations to the director general of the WHO deliberated for 2 hrs but they have decided that there were many doubts about the pandemic behavior even though it has appeared to be lowering in North America and Europe.
Top influenza expert of WHO told the reporters on Wednesday that in West Africa the rising level of infection and risk in northern hemisphere during the winter months were the important topics of the committee.
Mr. Fukuda said that they have some important consideration about the things that may develop since nearly half of the world enters in to the winter months.
He also added that UN health agency has confirmed the rising infection in the regions of Senegal and Mauritania and it is also checking whether the swine flu virus is spreading to other parts of the West Africa.
So far all over the world health organization has confirmed 16,226 deaths.
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