Health workers to get Tamiflu

Star: KUCHING: Sarawak is spending RM200,000 to buy Tamiflu for its health workers and to prepare for any outbreak, said Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam.
The stock would only be enough for 500 workers, he said, adding that the medicine was not easily available.
Dr Chan, also state Minister for Agriculture Modernisation, said police and army personnel were educating villagers living along the Sarawak-Kalimantan border on the risks of smuggling in fighting cocks and poultry.
As fighting cocks are prized birds, there are people who would use all means to smuggle them in from Indonesia, he told reporters after attending the state Cabinet meeting here yesterday.
Dr Chan said the state had imposed a total ban on the import of poultry from the peninsula.