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Hospitals not telling PMC about cases of infectious diseases
Umesh Isalkar, TNN | Jul 16, 2012, 02.50AM IST
PUNE: The PMC's effort to create a reporting system for incidences of communicable diseases in the city has come a cropper with no private hospital keeping the civic body informed.
Section 17 of the Bombay Nursing Home Registration (Amendment Act) 2005, makes it mandatory for all private hospitals to report cases of infectious, non-infectious, delivery and abortion cases to local authorities. But none of the 600-odd private hospitals in the city has responded to the circular issued by the PMC on June 19.
Almost a month after the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) asked all hospitals to report cases of communicable as well as non-communicable diseases, not a single hospital in Pune sent their reports.
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The diseases that fall in this category are malaria, filaria, diphtheria, chikungunia, dengue, hepatitis/B/C/D/E, typhoid, cholera, leptospirosis, acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) and swine flu. "Since infectious diseases spread fast and need urgent medical intervention, we have asked hospitals to report the cases within 24 hours. Waterborne and vector-borne diseases have the potential to turn into an epidemic if it remains uncontrolled for sometime. The aim is to check diseases in the beginning and prevent transmission," Pardeshi said.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-infectious-diseases/articleshow/14970102.cms
Umesh Isalkar, TNN | Jul 16, 2012, 02.50AM IST
PUNE: The PMC's effort to create a reporting system for incidences of communicable diseases in the city has come a cropper with no private hospital keeping the civic body informed.
Section 17 of the Bombay Nursing Home Registration (Amendment Act) 2005, makes it mandatory for all private hospitals to report cases of infectious, non-infectious, delivery and abortion cases to local authorities. But none of the 600-odd private hospitals in the city has responded to the circular issued by the PMC on June 19.
Almost a month after the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) asked all hospitals to report cases of communicable as well as non-communicable diseases, not a single hospital in Pune sent their reports.
...
The diseases that fall in this category are malaria, filaria, diphtheria, chikungunia, dengue, hepatitis/B/C/D/E, typhoid, cholera, leptospirosis, acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) and swine flu. "Since infectious diseases spread fast and need urgent medical intervention, we have asked hospitals to report the cases within 24 hours. Waterborne and vector-borne diseases have the potential to turn into an epidemic if it remains uncontrolled for sometime. The aim is to check diseases in the beginning and prevent transmission," Pardeshi said.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-infectious-diseases/articleshow/14970102.cms