Besides starting six swine flu screening centres at Indora hospital, Dik dispensary, Sadar hospital, Mahal Dignostic centre, Isolation hospital and Shanti Nagar hospital, NMC health department has asked all its doctors and also private nursing homes to check the patients coming with complaints of extreme cold, cough and fever for H1N1 infection and shift positive patients to Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and Indira Gandhi Government Medical Hospital (Mayo Hospital).
Additional municipal commissioner incharge of health department Vishnupad Bute informed that all screening centres would remain open between 8 am and 2 pm including on Sundays and holidays.
Bute said, "NMC had given permission to four private hospitals-Wockhardt, Shankar Nagar, Chandak Hospital, Central Avenue, Krims Hospital, Ramdaspeth, and J J Hospital, Dhantoli-to treat swine flu patients. Thirty eight beds in private hospitals, 20 in GMCH and IGGMC along with 21 ventilators are available to deal with patients.
"If situation worsens, we will permit a few more private hospitals to treat the patients. The hospitals having proper facilities including separate wards and ventilators etc can apply for permission to NMC medical officer (medicine)," he added. Bute further said, "Last year, 12 deaths were reported from city out of the 113 H1N1 positive patients. A few of them were from Madhya Pradesh and nearby regions of city."
Meanwhile, recently over 35 malaria patients were reported from different parts of city. "We have directed health officials to start spraying insecticides in areas where Aedes and Anopheles mosquitoes are breeding," said Bute. NMC has formed a rapid action team of its medical experts and staffers of malaria and filaria department who have started visiting the affected areas.
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