Alert: A dread of swine flu with dengue;
UP Desk, Amar Ujala, Meerut Updated Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:09 AM IST
Dengue patients are getting persistent in Meerut city of UP, so there is also danger of swine flu. In this regard, the Health Department has issued instructions to the Chief Medical Officers of all the districts to ensure the arrangement of medicine, PPE kit and vaccine.
Instructions sent by the Director of Health Bhavan, Lucknow said that in the year 2017, 3880 patients were infected with the effects of influenza-AH1N1, out of which 132 died.
In the year 2018, from January to September 11, 16 people were infected with the Influenza-AH1N virus (swine flu) and three people died. Hence it is directed that to deal with this disease, a report of the number of available medicines, PPE kits, vaccine and protected beds in the hospitals should be prepared and sent to the e-mail and the arrangement should be ensured and this system should be ensured.
In this regard, CMO Dr. Rajkumar says that although there is no information about swine flu in Meerut now. Neither is there any such season, yet the health department's instructions are being followed. It is worth mentioning that in last year only four hundred Swine Flu Chemers were found in Meerut.
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Which would make the death reported on 9/13 the fourth - R