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No suspected case of swine flu in India: Govt
New Delhi, Apr 30 (PTI) The Indian Government Thursday
said it was screening around 50,000 passengers coming from
swine flu-affected countries even as it assured that there was
no suspected case of the disease in the country as of now.
"There is no suspected case of swine flu in the
country so far," Joint Secretary Ministry of Health, Vineet
Chaudhary told reporters here.
The clarification came in the wake of reports that a
Hyderabad resident had come back from Mexico with flu like
symptoms.
"The patient is not showing any symptoms now. In fact
he had reported to a nearby health centre for check up after
he developed flu like symptoms after coming back from Mexico,"
Chaudhary said.
Director, NICD, Shivlal said fresh samples have been
taken from the Hyderabad resident and are being flown to Delhi
and the results will be available in the next 24 to 48 hours.
The Centre has also decided to increase its Tamiflu
stock from one million to 10 million doses over the next seven
days, he said, adding the stockpile would be decentralised all
over the country so that any emergency situation can be dealt
with quickly.
A total of 50,000 passengers who have come from
countries affected by swine flu have been traced and checks
would be carried out on them.
Chaudhary said 8 counters have been set up at the
Delhi airport and each counter will be manned by one doctor
and two nurses.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation Thursday said
India has "tremendous capacity" to deal with the situation in
the event of an outbreak of the influenza.
"India has not reported any case of swine flu. For
that matter, none of the South East Asian countries have
reported any suspected case," Dr J P Narain, Director,
Communicable Diseases, WHO, South-East Asia region, said.
"They (India) have tremendous capacity to deal with
any kind of situation and it is very much in the forefront of
prepardeness... capacity is very much there... we have
absolutely no doubt about that," he told reporters here.
The WHO authorities said situation continues to evolve
rapidly and that as of yesterday nine countries have
officially reported 148 cases of swine influenza A/H 1N1
infection.
Narain said while Mexico has confirmed 26 human cases
of infection, including seven deaths, Canada has reported 13
laboratory confirmed cases, Austria (1), Germany (3), Israel
(2), New Zealand (3), Spain (4) and the United Kingdom (5).
Asked whether the WHO was satisfied with India's
response so far, Narain said: "India has surveillance and also
the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) and the
country followed all the steps."
He said the IDSP has an "excellent system" of
connectivity between districts and states and the country was
in the forefront in preparedness.
Responding to a question, he said the WHO regional
office has 3 million stockpile of Tamiflu treatments and the
world health body's headquarters has an additional 3.5 million
Tamiflu treatments. PTI
said it was screening around 50,000 passengers coming from
swine flu-affected countries even as it assured that there was
no suspected case of the disease in the country as of now.
"There is no suspected case of swine flu in the
country so far," Joint Secretary Ministry of Health, Vineet
Chaudhary told reporters here.
The clarification came in the wake of reports that a
Hyderabad resident had come back from Mexico with flu like
symptoms.
"The patient is not showing any symptoms now. In fact
he had reported to a nearby health centre for check up after
he developed flu like symptoms after coming back from Mexico,"
Chaudhary said.
Director, NICD, Shivlal said fresh samples have been
taken from the Hyderabad resident and are being flown to Delhi
and the results will be available in the next 24 to 48 hours.
The Centre has also decided to increase its Tamiflu
stock from one million to 10 million doses over the next seven
days, he said, adding the stockpile would be decentralised all
over the country so that any emergency situation can be dealt
with quickly.
A total of 50,000 passengers who have come from
countries affected by swine flu have been traced and checks
would be carried out on them.
Chaudhary said 8 counters have been set up at the
Delhi airport and each counter will be manned by one doctor
and two nurses.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation Thursday said
India has "tremendous capacity" to deal with the situation in
the event of an outbreak of the influenza.
"India has not reported any case of swine flu. For
that matter, none of the South East Asian countries have
reported any suspected case," Dr J P Narain, Director,
Communicable Diseases, WHO, South-East Asia region, said.
"They (India) have tremendous capacity to deal with
any kind of situation and it is very much in the forefront of
prepardeness... capacity is very much there... we have
absolutely no doubt about that," he told reporters here.
The WHO authorities said situation continues to evolve
rapidly and that as of yesterday nine countries have
officially reported 148 cases of swine influenza A/H 1N1
infection.
Narain said while Mexico has confirmed 26 human cases
of infection, including seven deaths, Canada has reported 13
laboratory confirmed cases, Austria (1), Germany (3), Israel
(2), New Zealand (3), Spain (4) and the United Kingdom (5).
Asked whether the WHO was satisfied with India's
response so far, Narain said: "India has surveillance and also
the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) and the
country followed all the steps."
He said the IDSP has an "excellent system" of
connectivity between districts and states and the country was
in the forefront in preparedness.
Responding to a question, he said the WHO regional
office has 3 million stockpile of Tamiflu treatments and the
world health body's headquarters has an additional 3.5 million
Tamiflu treatments. PTI
