Bhopal

NCDC team pulls up State for negligence

Staff Reporter

The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) team has pulled up the State Government for negligence in issuing alert against swine flu despite the fact that the NCDC had directed the States three months ago. The NCDC officials claimed that doctors in the State were providing treatment of common cold and fever to the patients suffering from swine flu and the State woke up after the disease spread across the State and it reached extreme levels.

During their visit at Hamidia hospital, NCDC officials raised concern over the negligence in checking the spread of swine flu as the State should have become active and alert before December, 2014. The officials claimed that based on outbreak of swine flu for the past three years, alter was issued in the month of October 2014 to the State Government.

Containing swine flu has been a serious problematic affair for the State and after the visit of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) team officials those raised allegations against the State the problem has augmented for the State. The NCDC team visited the Hamidia hospital, JP hospital and Community Health Centre, Bairgarh to inspect and investigated the spreading of infection of swine flu and increasing number of deaths across the State.