After the death of 32 crows at Devalghati Moja (Pinjore) in Panchkula district of Haryana and 10 Bar-headed geese in a wetland in Jind district, Haryana Government on Monday sent a team of experts at both the places for checking the possibility of bird flu.
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Monday said that an isolation ward would be set up there if conditions are found suspicious. Vij said the Department has taken samples of affected people which have been sent for examination and its report is awaited.
He assured that full attention is being paid on the situation where crows have been found dead in Jagadhari. The Department is taking necessary action on the report regarding it, he added.
All hospitals in the State have been directed to work on preventive measures to control before the spread of any disease. The Department and hospitals have been asked to keep full stock of medicines in this regard, he added.
Meanwhile, Rapid Response Team (RRT) of Haryana continued their active surveillance. The RRT of Health Department are continuously doing surveillance in the adjoining areas of Sukhna lake of Chandigarh in Haryana, including Chandi Tandai and Chandi Kotla, Saketri, Mahadevpur and Bhainsa Tibba to get any positive signs or symptoms of bird flu there, a statement of the State Government said.
They are also visiting house to house to trace bird flu symptoms in human being there besides following the standard infection control practices on human-bird-contact or suspected human-human contacts.
The workers from Saketri who were involved in culling and mopping up of birds at Sukhna lake are still under home quarantine and on tablet Tamiflu with daily follow up for 10 days, added a spokesperson.
Shri Pal, one of such patient, who was admitted at isolation ward in General Hospital, Sector 6, Panchkula has now been discharged from hospital after seeing improvement in his health. Now he is being quarantined at home for further surveillance.