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Bahrain doctors offer flu deal for illegals.


Byline: ManamaBy Mandeep Singh

Bahrain doctors are offering a 'don't ask, don't tell' deal to illegal residents who come forward for swine flu swine flu
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A highly contagious form of human influenza caused by a filterable virus identical or related to a virus formerly isolated from infected swine.
 tests, a report said.

They hope to break the barrier of fear that could stop thousands of illegals from seeking medical help - with potentially disastrous consequences, said the Gulf Daily News report.

Patients will be tested and treated with no questions asked about their legal status, Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC SMC Saint Mary's College
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) infection control head Dr Jameela Salman told the newspaper.

'We are not interested in a sick person's legal status and will treat everyone as a patient, regardless of his or her nationality nationality, in political theory, the quality of belonging to a nation, in the sense of a group united by various strong ties. Among the usual ties are membership in the same general community, common customs, culture, tradition, history, and language. , religion or legal status. That is our job.

'Sick people should realise their life is more important. If treatment of a swine flu patient is delayed, it could be disastrous.'

She was speaking a day after Bahrain suffered its first swine swine, name for any of the cloven-hoofed mammals of the family Suidae, native to the Old World. A swine has a rather long, mobile snout, a heavy, relatively short-legged body, a thick, bristly hide, and a small tail.  flu-related death.

The victim was identified yesterday as 30-year-old runaway Filipina housemaid Jame Tamad Diale.

She died at the SMC on Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. , after being dropped off last Wednesday by a friend, who then vanished. She was registered as 'unknown' and treated under a temporary CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac
 number.

Dr Salman said officials were aware that many illegal residents may be too afraid to report to the hospital.

'While they have their own reasons not to come to the hospital, we would appeal to them to do so as soon as they feel sick,' she said. - TradeArabia News Service

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