With two more deaths in the State due to H1N1 influenza taking the total tally to four on Wednesday in Punjab, the State Health and Family Welfare Minister Surjit Kumar Jayani maintained that the “situation is under control and there is no need to panic”.
He said that in all four deaths have taken place in Punjab due to swine flu in the current winter season and 17 positive cases were reported across the State. The Minister directed all the civil surgeons across the State to work in coordination with private hospitals of their respective districts.
He asked them to sensitize the doctors in private hospitals through the Indian Medical Association to immediately report all suspected cases to their respective civil surgeons.