Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin signed a provision regarding the prevention of АН1N1 flu outbreak in the region.

The list of measures is to be drawn up by his deputies Andrei Kosilov and Evgeniy Redin, who will lead an ad hoc team consisting of Health Minister Viktor Shepelev, Minister for Agriculture Ivan Feklin, Minister for Radiation and Environmental Safety Gennady Podtesov, head of Rospotrebnadzor’s Chelyabinsk Region division Anatoly Semenov, head of Rosselkhoznadzor’s Chelyabinsk Region division Sergey Naumov, and heads of some other ministries and departments.

This team is to develop and propose to the Governor a multi-faceted action plan for this year.

Andrei Kosilov held a meeting devoted to flu prevention on April 30, 2009 in order to look into the previous years’ achievements like improved hospitals’ equipment and more medications and materials as well as infrared image converters used at border checkpoints.

Kosilov reports they have already done the stock count of medications, equipment, and materials and came up with a list of step-by-step measures to be taken under an emergency. The medical establishments where the flu might be treated have also been designated.