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Jammu Kashmir
Posted at: Mar 20, 2017, 12:41 AM; last updated: Mar 20, 2017, 12:41 AM (IST)
Viral infection: Health dept collects samples
Srinagar March 19
Amid panic among people, the J&K Government has taken samples from different hospitals to identify the virus, which has infected thousands of children across Kashmir.
After the outbreak of the viral infection among schoolchildren in the first week of March in north Kashmir?s Bandipora district, the Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir (DHSK), immediately sent a team of doctors to prevent the viral infection from spreading further.
The viral infection had engulfed almost all the children of the Pethkot hamlet of Bandipora. Besides, a 5-year-old boy, Nazim Khan, who was also suffering from viral infection and had underlying comorbidity of a congenital heart disease, had died at his home on March 4.
The team of doctors treated 68 children having viral infection at Pethkot hamlet on March 6.
?Initially, we had information that the infection is restricted to Pethkot village only but later, it came out to have infected other areas of the district also. We distributed over 1,000 bottles of cough syrups among the patients in Pethkot,? block medical officer, Bandipora, Dr Syed-ur-Rehman said.
As the viral infection turned into an epidemic, the DHSK sent a team of doctors from epidemiology division to Bandipora to collect samples on March 16...
Jammu Kashmir
Posted at: Mar 20, 2017, 12:41 AM; last updated: Mar 20, 2017, 12:41 AM (IST)
Viral infection: Health dept collects samples
Srinagar March 19
Amid panic among people, the J&K Government has taken samples from different hospitals to identify the virus, which has infected thousands of children across Kashmir.
After the outbreak of the viral infection among schoolchildren in the first week of March in north Kashmir?s Bandipora district, the Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir (DHSK), immediately sent a team of doctors to prevent the viral infection from spreading further.
The viral infection had engulfed almost all the children of the Pethkot hamlet of Bandipora. Besides, a 5-year-old boy, Nazim Khan, who was also suffering from viral infection and had underlying comorbidity of a congenital heart disease, had died at his home on March 4.
The team of doctors treated 68 children having viral infection at Pethkot hamlet on March 6.
?Initially, we had information that the infection is restricted to Pethkot village only but later, it came out to have infected other areas of the district also. We distributed over 1,000 bottles of cough syrups among the patients in Pethkot,? block medical officer, Bandipora, Dr Syed-ur-Rehman said.
As the viral infection turned into an epidemic, the DHSK sent a team of doctors from epidemiology division to Bandipora to collect samples on March 16...
