Guidelines For Dealing With Monkeypox Issued By Health Ministry

While the World Health Organization claims that it is possible to control the monkeypox outbreak and prevent the spread of infection between humans, particularly in countries where it has not yet spread, the Ministry of Health is doing everything it can to boost its preparedness, despite its announcement that it is free of any illness. According to health sources, the Ministry of Health will purchase 5,000 doses of the vaccine to augment the stockpile.

Dr. Abdel Nasser Abu Bakr, the head of the infection risk team at the World Health Organization's Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, stated earlier that monkeypox does not indicate a new epidemic, as it did during the Corona epidemic.

In addition, he noted that monkeypox is not related to Corona, and that it is a disease that is well understood by doctors, for which treatments, vaccines, and prevention are readily available.

After these precautionary measures, the Ministry of Health issued technical guidelines for health facilities to follow in relation to monkeypox cases, suspected cases, potential cases, confirmed cases, and contact cases, as well as the reporting procedure for previous cases.

Infections should be reported using this mechanism

1 – On the "occurrence of an infectious disease" notification form, the attending physician immediately makes the necessary telephone and written reports to the nearest prevention center, indicating the clinical diagnosis of the case (suspected/probable/confirmed of monkeypox) in the clinical diagnosis field, and sending it to the prevention center..

2 – The head of public health services in the health district shall be notified by the preventive health physician in the hospital or the preventive center.

3 – The head of public health in the region contacts the liaison officer of the Infectious Diseases Control Department via telephone to notify them of the occurrence of an infectious disease.

4 – The preventive health doctor completes an investigation form for the case at the hospital or prevention center, follows up on lab results, and sends it to Infectious Diseases Control.

5 – If the infection is confirmed, the prevention center associated with the case's residence is notified to take the precautions customary for its contacts.

6 – The Public Health Department Director receives a weekly report from the Infectious Diseases Control Department with information on new cases, their data, and the global epidemiological situation.

Suspect cases to be dealt with

As a preventive doctor in the hospital, the practicing doctor performs the following steps if the treating doctor needs to book the case to be seen in the hospital:

Follow the case investigation form's instructions for preventing infection in isolation rooms while emphasizing isolation of the case.

When complete laboratory results are available, follow up on the case as a confirmed case will be handled in accordance with the guidelines for confirmed cases.

A preventive physician in the hospital fills out the investigation form on the case in the event that the treating physician does not need to book it in the hospital, and teaches the patient what it means to stay at home and keep from mixing with others during the treatment period prescribed by the treating physician, as well as follow the instructions for preventing infection during treatment.

The Ministry of Health has published guidelines for dealing with monkeypox cases.If the infection is confirmed by laboratory testing, it will be dealt with in accordance with the mechanism for dealing with confirmed cases.

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