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| After 2 Swine Flu deaths in Kashmir Health Department issues Advisory | | `SKIMS has got Trivalant vaccine' | | Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 18 : Facing severe criticism for brushing the Swine Flu issue under the carpert, the Health Department woke up today and issued the dos and don'ts. Meanwhile, the Director SKIMS, Dr Showkat Zargar, during a press conference today said that two patients infected by H1N1 virus have died in Kashmir Valley while 71 more have tested positive and are undergoing treatment.
He said one death was confirmed to have occurred due to the virus, another patient, a woman, had critical cardiac ailments as well but was infected with the H1N1 virus too.
Giving details of swine flu related cases, Dr Showkat said that at least 71 cases of common cold and cough have tested positive for the virus and other 275 patients will be tested for the virus, out of which 113 are infected with Influenza A and 71 H1NI positive cases. He said that SKIMS has set up a quarantine ward for Swine Flu patients and diagnostic kits are available there to tackle the virus.
He said the SKIMS was the lone hospital with full-fledged H1N1 diagnostics and testing lab and had procured Trivalant vaccine that is effective against Influenza A, B and H1N1. Pertinently Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Headed by Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan is continuously accusing health officials of brushing the issue under the carpet and exposed ill preparedness of health department in media twice in the last week with already over 200 suspected H1N1 cases in the division.
The disclosure of its kind by DAK has sent alarming bells across the Kashmir division where according to DAK government-run hospitals are ill-equipped to contain the virus or identify new cases due to lack of facilities and there is a wave of fear among common masses that many cases may have gone undetected due to lack of H1N1 testing centres at hospitals in peripheral areas. P
anic gripped Kashmir yesterday evening after one Weekly Newspaper reported that four H1N1 deaths had taken place in SKIMS and there were two more deaths reported from SMHS and more than 300 cases have been tested and around 80 cases are positive.
Experts say that although this disease is treatable but most of the patients die as hospitals lack Tamiflu vaccine which is used to cure them and keeping in View present infrastructure in Government run Hospitals in Kashmir and unavailability of all important vaccine more deaths of suspected Swine flu patients cannot be ruled out and such a move can increases wave of fear among common masses if not tackled now.
According to experts Swine Flu or H1N1 is a highly contagious virus whose second strain killed over 284,500 people globally in a pandemic that broke out in 2009 and the first outbreak took place in 1918.
Pertinently total number of swine flu deaths has already crossed to 624 across the country this year with over 9300 people affected by the flu so far and almost 700 deaths were reported at different places across the country during 2013. |
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