With an aim to check the spread of Swine flu, isolation ward and Swine flu screening centres have been started at all health institutions across the State, said Principal Secretary of Public Health and Family Welfare Department Gauri Singh, at review meeting on Wednesday.
At the meeting, Singh instructed to pay immediate attention and provide the suspected patients having cold, cough, fever and high fever and report sore throat problems with medication according to the protocol and should be provided with Tamiflu.
All possible measures to ensure the availability of medicines and necessary treatment goods have been done. A total of 118 medical stores have been marked where Tamiflu would be made available and in the same manner the medicine has been made available at Primary Health Centers across the state.
In the State 104 samples have been collected and 103 have been tested. In the tests 96 samples have been tested negative and 7 have been found positive. Three patients are undergoing treatment at private hospitals and three are on ventilator. In the year 2016 two patients have died Swine Flu.
Important instructions were given to the medical officer to update State level Call Center with the suspected and positive patients. Screening centers for Swine Flu at H1N1 have been developed at the district hospitals, medical college, hospitals and marked private hospitals.
The screening centers would work round the clock and to tackle the spread in a better manner the patients detected under C category would be treated at the isolation ward have been made to check the spread of Swine Flu.