Sally Furniss
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Treating swine flu patients made mandatory for pvt docs
27 December 2009, 09:23pm IST
RAJKOT: All private clinics and doctors in the city will have to provide primary health treatment to any patient approaching them with swine flu
symptoms. Failing to do so, the medicos will be booked under Nursing Act and liable for prosecution. This was decreed on Saturday by Rajkot Municipal Corporation commissioner Dinesh Brahmabhatt.
"RMC commissioner has taken this decision with a view to curb the swine flu epidemic, which has assumed dangerous proportions," said a senior official from RMC health department. Intensifying its fight against the H1N1 virus, RMC has roped in 95 paediatricians, 105 general practitioners, 200 government hospitals and 27 private clinics in the drive.
In order to reach out to more patients, RMC has also authorised three private hospitals Ashirwad Hospital behind Mavadi Circle, Mile Stone Hospital on Vidhyanagar Road and H J Doshi Hospital behind PDM College to provide swine flu treatment and medicines. Following this, special wards for H1N1 positive patients have been created in these hospitals.
That apart, RMC health department has made it mandatory for all education institutions in the city to grant holidays to students with fever. "In order to check the inflow of swine flu patients in the city, managers of ST depots and officials at railway station have been ordered to keep an eye on passengers with swine flu-like symptoms and report them to the health department immediately," the official said.
So far, Rajkot city and adjoining areas have reported 88 H1N1 positive cases, of which 20 patients have died. Total of 747 suspected cases, who are feared to have contracted infection
after coming in contact with swine flu patients, have been quarantined for treatment
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...andatory-for-pvt-docs/articleshow/5385312.cms
27 December 2009, 09:23pm IST
RAJKOT: All private clinics and doctors in the city will have to provide primary health treatment to any patient approaching them with swine flu
symptoms. Failing to do so, the medicos will be booked under Nursing Act and liable for prosecution. This was decreed on Saturday by Rajkot Municipal Corporation commissioner Dinesh Brahmabhatt.
"RMC commissioner has taken this decision with a view to curb the swine flu epidemic, which has assumed dangerous proportions," said a senior official from RMC health department. Intensifying its fight against the H1N1 virus, RMC has roped in 95 paediatricians, 105 general practitioners, 200 government hospitals and 27 private clinics in the drive.
In order to reach out to more patients, RMC has also authorised three private hospitals Ashirwad Hospital behind Mavadi Circle, Mile Stone Hospital on Vidhyanagar Road and H J Doshi Hospital behind PDM College to provide swine flu treatment and medicines. Following this, special wards for H1N1 positive patients have been created in these hospitals.
That apart, RMC health department has made it mandatory for all education institutions in the city to grant holidays to students with fever. "In order to check the inflow of swine flu patients in the city, managers of ST depots and officials at railway station have been ordered to keep an eye on passengers with swine flu-like symptoms and report them to the health department immediately," the official said.
So far, Rajkot city and adjoining areas have reported 88 H1N1 positive cases, of which 20 patients have died. Total of 747 suspected cases, who are feared to have contracted infection
after coming in contact with swine flu patients, have been quarantined for treatment
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...andatory-for-pvt-docs/articleshow/5385312.cms