The State Government on Saturday claimed that along with giving message through various mediums about prevention of swine flu, the facility for its free treatment has also been made available in the hospitals. Medicines for patients are available in all 51 district hospitals. As many as 10,000 Tamiflu tablets have been made available to Bhopal’s CHMO (for both Government and private hospitals), Indore division has got 10,000, Gwalior and Ujjain has received 5,000 each and 2,000 Tamiflu tablets each have been made available to Sagar and Rewa.
Necessary vaccines have also been administered to professionals. Screening arrangements have been made in all medical colleges. Jabalpur laboratory has the capacity to test 80,000 and Gwalior laboratory can check 40,000 samples daily. Testing for disease has eased due to enhancement in labs’ capacity. Personal protection equipment kits for reducing risk of disease are also available in adequate quantity in hospitals. Earlier, 1,000 kits were received. During video-conferencing from NIC room in Vindhyachal Bhavan, the State Government has urged the Central Government to make available additional 1,000 kits.
Swine flu has claimed five lives in the State in last four days. In a meeting of coordination committee at Mantralaya on Saturday, Principal Secretary (Health) Praveer Krishna said that situation has not deteriorated much in MP as it became alert before other States. Indore’s Shriram and Arvind and Dhar’s Sher Singh died in MY Hospital, Indore on February 10, Khargone’s Abdul died in MY Hospital, Indore on February 12 and Damoh’s Savitri Mishra died on February 12. These patients were infected with other diseases also.