Qld: Nursing home residents given flu treatment

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2007
Qld: Nursing home residents given flu treatment

Residents and staff at a Brisbane nursing home have been the first to receive flu medicine
.. taken from the Queensland government's stockpile of anti-viral drugs.

The government's stocks of Tamiflu have been made available to nursing homes and community
pharmacies across the state.

Premier PETER BEATTIE says nursing home residents are the most vulnerable .. and at
increased risk of contracting the flu.

So far Queensland Health has provided 400 courses of anti-viral medication to nursing homes.





The state government established an anti-viral stockpile of more than 30-thousand courses
of Tamiflu last year .. at a cost of 990-thousand dollars.

The medicine had been put aside to deal with a potential bird flu epidemic.

AAP RTV rm/pjo/ibw/bart

KEYWORD: FLU QLD (BRISBANE)

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