Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan issued directives to the officers for taking necessary measures to prevent swine flu. He also instructed to spread awareness among the people in this regard and for sufficient arrangements for tests and medical treatment. Chouhan was reviewing the arrangements as regard to prevention of swine flu here on Friday.
Directing the officers, Chouhan said that sufficient arrangements for swine flu medicines, equipments and other essential material should be made at all the places. Isolation wards should be kept ready in all the district hospitals, ventilators should be arranged and sufficient arrangement of temiflu medicine should be made.
Chouhan further mentioned that private hospitals should be reminded to start treatment with utmost seriousness immediately in case of doubt of swine flu case and they should also inform about it immediately.
Besides, Chouhan said that necessary measures and cautions should be adopted to prevent swine flu from spreading as regard to the people coming from outside. Awareness should be generated among the people for prevention of swine flu. He also issued directives for necessary measures through urban bodies and gram panchayats. Furthermore, Chouhan also gave instructions for dengue tests and treatment.
Principal Secretary Public Health Gouri Singh informed that there is a facility of swine flu screening and treatment in 65 identified hospital of the State. Test facility is available in Gwalior, Jabalpur and Bhopal. Temiflu medicine is available in sufficient stock, which can be taken at the advice of the doctors. Moreover treatment facility is available in all the district hospitals and medical colleges.
Principal Secretary Urban Administration Malay Shrivastava, Principal Secretary to CM SK Mishra, Secretary to CM Vivek Agrawal, Commissioner Public Health Pallavi Jain Govil, Secretary Medical Education Shivshekhar Shukla, Additional Secretary to CM B Chandrashekhar, Director Public Health Dr KK Thassu and other Senior officers of the Health department were present in the meeting.
Swine Flu caused by Influenza ‘A’ (H1N1) virus. This virus spread among the human by droplet infection. The virus remains active at hard and solid places from 24 to 48 hours, on clothes and papers from 8 to 12 hours and for 15 minutes on hands.
Suspected patients of swine flu have been divided in 3 categories. Under Category “A”, patients suffer from common cold-cough, mild temperature, vomiting, dysentery and body pain.
Administer medicine according to these symptoms. Give advice to the patients to remain at home and not to visit the public places. Keep patient under monitoring for 24 to 48 hours. Consult doctors in absence of comfort. Keep distance from high risk family members at home.