NEW FLU PANDEMIC

The ministry for Health decided to present approximately 3.600 respirators to the medical establishments through Japan to prepare with the possibility of a new influenza of pandemia, the civils servant of ministry declared Wednesday. The ministry for Health, work and the wellbeing envisage to make the budgetary request for approximately 2 billion Yens in 2009 tax for the respirators, the civils servant declared. Each of the almost 360 medical zones in Japan would be given 10 respirators. The ministry studies how many the existing respirators had by the Japanese hospitals can be employed if a new flu pandemic would burst. Many people who contracted constraint H5N1 of the bird influenza, which had extended in Asia and is feared to undergo a change in a new influenza, had respiratory problems, making respirators essential by treating them.