Benbouzid: TV and the Internet to fight against swine flu

Algiers- Minister of Education, Boubakeur Benbouzid revealed, in an interview with Ennahar, that drastic measures are taken by the government to avoid a blank year in the education sector in case of a spread of swine flu. Which measures have been prepared in coordination with the national Office of Distance Education (ONFD).

• According to the first head of the education sector, in an interview with Ennahar, the measures taken by the Government will be the commissioning of the Internet and the national television to present courses for the students of the three levels of education. This is a way to tackle all the details to leave no way out for the student to attend special courses.
  
  According to Benbouzid, the government has taken these security measures when it has been registered no possibility of spread of swine influenza in the education sector in light of steps taken by the Ministry of Health, Population and hospital reform in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.
  
  Both departments have managed to master the situation since the recording of the first case in a school of Ain Temouchent in October 26. Six students have been confirmed infected with swine flu. These latter have been in contact with relatives who recently came back from France. Another case was registered in “Bouamama high school” in Algiers, and five other cases have been registered during last holiday, three cases in schools in Medea and two cases in Tizi Ouzou.
  
  121 cases of swine influenza have been recorded in Algeria until now, after the thirteen confirmed cases before yesterday, while the Algerian authorities have asked the British pharmaceutical group “GlaxoSmithKline” (GSK) to purchase 20 million doses of vaccine against swine flu.
  
  Ennahar / Habiba Mahmoud