The State has adequate stock of swine flu medicines and there is no need for any panic. The principal secretary health Om Prakash said this while addressing the newsmen at his office in State secretariat here on Thursday.
He said that the hospitals of the State are having adequate number of the ventilators and if need arises, the services of private hospitals too would be taken. Om Prakash said that Government hospitals have been asked to refer cases of swine flu to private hospitals if patient needs services of ventilator and if the ventilator of the hospital is occupied. He said that the State Government would reimburse the private hospitals in such an eventuality. The State Government has ordered for a fresh stock of swine flu medicine.
Samples of 90 suspected patients have been sent to National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for testing out of which 52 reports have arrived. 12 cases are positive for the disease. Out of these 12 confirmed cases two patients have succumbed to the disease in the State till date.