Closer monitoring of new flu
The new health minister Mariliza Xenoyiannakopoulou on Thursday noted the need for closer supervision and monitoring of the spread of novel influenza in schools, after a meeting with the National Operational Scientific Council for monitoring the disease's progress in Greece.
The minister said that emphasis will be given to control and the criteria for taking measures in schools, adding that Greece needed to step up the alert.
Regarding the vaccination programme, she said that final decisions will bemade after a meeting of European Union health minister taking place next week, adding that preparations for the start of a vaccination programme in Greece was continuing.
On the abolition of committees operating under the framework of the ministry, Xenoyiannakopoulou said that there were clear orders from Prime Minister George Papandreou to his ministers, instructing them to ask for the resignations of committee members at ministries.