Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, confirmed that the medicines for a treatment protocol syncytial virus It is available in hospitals, adding that chest hospitals receive patients with respiratory diseases 24 hours a day and provide free treatment.
Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, added, in today’s statements, that leaflets were sent to the directorates of health affairs in the governorates, including specific definitions of infection with the syncytial virus, in order to facilitate its diagnosis and treat it therapeutically. .
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, indicated that the ministry has a strong epidemiological surveillance system for infectious diseases, in 27 facilities, explaining that since 2020 a number of simple cases that were diagnosed and then the disease disappeared, and in October and November 2022 the attack began to be monitored. Seasonal symptoms of the virus, indicating that the pathological symptoms of the virus are simple to moderate, but its prevalence rates are high.
He stressed that there is no antibiotic to treat this disease because it is “viral” and not “bacterial”, and there is no vaccine for it yet, due to the periodic change in the virus’s proteins, but there is a treatment that is given to children at a young age, stressing that the most important methods of treating minor symptoms are Home comfort, and the use of fever reducers as directed by a doctor, warning against the wrong use of antibiotics in such pathological conditions..