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Telangana State on high alert
The Telangana government has pressed high-alert button on swine flu with the first six days of 2015 recording 23 positive cases out of a total of 116 patients tested for the swine flu virus. Principal Secretary in the Health Ministry Suresh Chanda said the Osmania General Hospital had been directed to be ready with Isolation Ward facility for treating swine flu cases, whenever the need arose.
Swine flu menace
Hyderabad: The Telangana government has pressed high-alert button on swine flu with the first six days of 2015 recording 23 positive cases out of a total of 116 patients tested for the swine flu virus. Principal Secretary in the Health Ministry Suresh Chanda said the Osmania General Hospital had been directed to be ready with Isolation Ward facility for treating swine flu cases, whenever the need arose.
Speaking to media persons, Chanda said the abnormal spurt in the number of swine flu cases in the first week of the New Year was due to the chilly weather persisting in the State. The high number of cases in the New Year, is in sharp contrast to just 86 positive cases out of 865 patients tested, in last year.
In view of the urgency, the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) has been directed to receive samples for testing between 8 am and 8 pm every day, including Sundays. He said the testing would take four to five hours and test reports would be submitted by the IPM lab the same day on which the sample was received.
Swine flu entered Indian shores in 2009 and 2010 recorded maximum number of deaths at 56. Lowest number of deaths was recorded in the year 2011, when only six people died of swine flu. According to Chanda, swine flu is like any other flu but general public should take precautions when complications like fever, cough and neck pain persist.
The Telangana government has been using publicity material including wall posters and pamphlets to raise awareness among people about swine flu. Chanda said deaths might take place in case of people with ‘compromised immunity’, which meant the ability of a person's immune system to fight infectious disease was compromised or entirely absent.Speaking to media persons last week, Director of Public Health P Sambasiva Rao said claimed that deaths occurred not purely due to the attack of swine flu, but due to presence of other chronic diseases.
