Re: Rajasthan 2012: 28 flu fatalities
Re: Rajasthan 2012: 28 flu fatalities
Comment - I can see a certain amount of sense in encouraging sick co-workers to stay home, but - this would apply to all flu-like illness. This rule is limited to those who test positive for pdmH1N1 only. Firstly, very few are tested so it is of limited practical value. Secondly, why does the Indian medical system continue to treat pdmH1N1 differently from other influenza? - Ro
H1N1 positive govt staffers to get 7-day leave
DNA | Oct 16, 2012, 05:28AM IST
Jaipur: Now, government employees will get seven-day leave if they are found suffering from swine flu influenza or the H1N1 virus. Officials said the order was taken out to quarantine patients of the disease to control the spread of H1N1 virus.
The finance department on Monday issued an order announcing a week long medical leave for the affected employees on Monday.
The Rajasthan service rules, 1951 outlines a seven-day quarantining of a patient suffering from infectious diseases like Cholera, small pox, plague, diphtheria, typhus fever and cerebrospinal meningitis.
The patients suffering of the H1N1 virus have now been included in the same category of diseases which require isolation of the patient. The medical department had recently requested the government to add swine flu on the list.
http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/RA...-staffers-to-get-7-day-leave-3931597-NOR.html