Dr Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, confirmed that the drugs 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 health affairs directorates in the governorates, including specific definitions of syncytial virus infection, in order to facilitate its diagnosis and treatment. therapeutically. .
Dr Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, 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 have been diagnosed and then the disease has disappeared, and in October and November 2022, monitoring of the Seasonal symptoms of the virus attack began, 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 cure this disease because it is “viral” and not “bacterial”, and there is still no vaccine for it, due to the periodic change of proteins of the virus, but there is a treatment that it is given to young children, emphasizing that the most important methods of treating minor symptoms are home comfort and the use of antipyretics as directed by a doctor, warning against the incorrect use of antibiotics in such pathological conditions..
