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04-08-2011, 05:40 PM
The Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Education and the local office of the Panamerican Health Organization announced the start of a program to rid students at public schools of parasites. The program will last 10 days and will be implemented at 5,052 public schools nationwide. It expects to reach out to 1.6 million elementary students, ages 6 to 13. Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez, Education Minister Josefina Pimentel and Liliam Reneau-Vernon, local representative of the Panamerican Health Organization kicked off the program providing doses of Albendazole to two students at the Liceo Union Panamericana in Santo Domingo. Albendazole is a drug used to treat infections caused by worms. Albendazole works by keeping the worm from absorbing sugar (glucose), so that the worm loses energy and dies.
During the program announcement, the ministers called the attention to the health-damaging generalized practice of people self-medicating antibiotics. The Ministry of Public Health yesterday celebrated the World Health Day. For World Health Day 2011, the World Health Organization launched a worldwide campaign to safeguard antibiotics for future generations. Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread threaten the continued effectiveness of many medicines used today to treat the sick, while at the same time it risks jeopardizing important advances being made against major infectious killers, says the WHO while advocating careful use of the pharmaceuticals.
http://www.who.int/world-health-day/2011/en/index.html
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During the program announcement, the ministers called the attention to the health-damaging generalized practice of people self-medicating antibiotics. The Ministry of Public Health yesterday celebrated the World Health Day. For World Health Day 2011, the World Health Organization launched a worldwide campaign to safeguard antibiotics for future generations. Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread threaten the continued effectiveness of many medicines used today to treat the sick, while at the same time it risks jeopardizing important advances being made against major infectious killers, says the WHO while advocating careful use of the pharmaceuticals.
http://www.who.int/world-health-day/2011/en/index.html
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)