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CommentsGov. Chris Gregoire on Tuesday authorized emergency funds to purchase flu medication to prepare for a busy flu season.
The funds include $700,000 for additional antiviral medication and $150,000 to help pay for the state’s response to the swine flu breakout from earlier this year. The state Department of Health has already received supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile.
“It’s wise to prepare for whatever the flu season brings this fall by ordering more antiviral medications now,” Gregoire said in a news release.
The funding is available because the state recently adopted an emergency rule to add swine flu, also known as H1N1 flu, to the state’s list of notifiable conditions.
“There’s no way to be sure what the next flu season will bring, yet we know that this global outbreak isn’t over,” state Secretary of Health Mary Selecky said.
Brian Everstine, The News Tribune
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