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Argentina: Health Minister Resigns Over Handling of Flu Cases
New York Times
June 29, 2009

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO

Graciela Oca a, Argentina's health minister, resigned Monday amid a fast-spreading outbreak of swine flu that has killed 26 people in the country, government officials said.

Speculation had grown in recent weeks that Ms. Oca a was considering resigning over differences with the government in the handling of the outbreak and a previous dengue fever outbreak. Argentine news media reported that other cabinet ministers had blocked her proposed measures for handling the epidemics.

Dr. Juan Manzur, the vice-governor of Tucuman Province and a former health minister there, will take over for Ms. Ocana, said Sergio Massa, the government's chief of staff. Mr. Massa and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner met with a committee of experts to discuss how to contain swine flu.

In recent days Argentina has reported a disproportionate number of deaths from swine flu compared to the United States and other countries, a spokesman for the health ministry said. Argentina has reported 26 deaths out of 1,587 infections, or a death rate of 1.6 percent.

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