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Sat, 07/18/2009 - 18:49
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SWINE FLU SUSPECT ADMITTED TO CIREBON HOSPITAL
Cirebon, Indonesia, July 18 (ANTARA) - A swine flu (H1N1) suspect, identified by his initials as JJ (31) of Majalengka, West Java, has been admitted to Gunung Jati hospital here.
"The patient came to the hospital at 8 on Friday night at his own suspicion that he might be suffering from swine flu because he had just returned from Hong Kong," Gunung Jati hospital's swine flu management team chairman Ali Hanafiah told the newsmen here on Saturday.
To determine that the patient was swine flu positive or negative, the doctor took his blood sample for laboratory test in Jakarta but the result would be made known at least one week afterward.
"But the patient is being isolated from the visitors, especially his family members, and we treat him like we did to bird flu patients," Ali Hanifiah said.
Local health office spokesperson Kaptiningsih said hospitals and clinics in Cirebon since the past weeks have been put on alert for possible outbreak of swine flu virus H1N1.
"We are warning the Gunungjati General Hospital and other clinics to be on alert for possible H1N1 outbreak," Kaptiningsih told newsmen here early this week.
To anticipate a spread of the H1N1 virus in Cirebon, she said the local health office has distributed around 5,000 tablets of tamiflu to 21 clinics in the city of Cirebon, as the tamiflu tablets which had been distributed earlier to the clinics have expired and would soon be withdrawn.
Kaptiningsih said that a Cirebon resident, identified by his initial AF, has just returned from Malaysia and was suspected to carry H1N1 but he has now recovered.
"AF has just participated in a seminar in Malaysia but was suspected to have been infected with H1N1 and put in quarantine there. Now he is well and returned to Cirebon," Kaptiningsih said.
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"The patient came to the hospital at 8 on Friday night at his own suspicion that he might be suffering from swine flu because he had just returned from Hong Kong," Gunung Jati hospital's swine flu management team chairman Ali Hanafiah told the newsmen here on Saturday.
To determine that the patient was swine flu positive or negative, the doctor took his blood sample for laboratory test in Jakarta but the result would be made known at least one week afterward.
"But the patient is being isolated from the visitors, especially his family members, and we treat him like we did to bird flu patients," Ali Hanifiah said.
Local health office spokesperson Kaptiningsih said hospitals and clinics in Cirebon since the past weeks have been put on alert for possible outbreak of swine flu virus H1N1.
"We are warning the Gunungjati General Hospital and other clinics to be on alert for possible H1N1 outbreak," Kaptiningsih told newsmen here early this week.
To anticipate a spread of the H1N1 virus in Cirebon, she said the local health office has distributed around 5,000 tablets of tamiflu to 21 clinics in the city of Cirebon, as the tamiflu tablets which had been distributed earlier to the clinics have expired and would soon be withdrawn.
Kaptiningsih said that a Cirebon resident, identified by his initial AF, has just returned from Malaysia and was suspected to carry H1N1 but he has now recovered.
"AF has just participated in a seminar in Malaysia but was suspected to have been infected with H1N1 and put in quarantine there. Now he is well and returned to Cirebon," Kaptiningsih said.
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