Senior officials from the Central Union Health Ministry on Friday held a meeting of top health experts to discuss the need to revisit existing guidelines on management of the monkeypox disease.
The meeting comes in the wake of the rising monkeypox cases in the country. India has reported nine cases of the disease including one death so far.
The meeting was chaired by Dr L Swastichandran, director of Emergency Medical Relief (EMR). Officials from the National Aids Control Organisation, National Centre for Diseases Control and World Health Organisation (WHO) representatives.
An official from the Ministry said that, it was a technical meeting to revisit the existing guidelines.”
As per the existing ‘Guidelines on Management of Monkeypox Disease’ issued by the Centre, any person having a history of travel to affected countries within the last 21 days presenting with an acute rash and reporting symptoms like swollen lymph nodes, fever, headaches, body aches and profound weakness will be considered a ‘suspected case.’