Swine
Flu Bill Impossible To Justify, Says GP Chairman
The vast amount of money spent on swine flu is difficult to justify, the NI chairman of the British Medical Association's GP Committee, Dr Brian Dunn, has said. In Northern Ireland, 18 deaths were related to swine flu. Two other people from Northern Ireland died abroad from swine-flu related illness. The cost to the Department of Health is £44m. "I would not like to be accounting for that. At a time when money is scarce and is likely to get scarcer; at a time when waiting lists are going up; at a time when we are talking about cuts in front-line services, I think it is very hard to justify that," Dr Dunn said. In February, it emerged that half a million swine flu vaccines remained unused in Northern Ireland. The death rate from those suffering from the virus across the UK was low, at 0.026%. In addition, hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have been infected but not displayed any symptoms.
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