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Woman dies of H1N1, alert issued in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: A 19-year-old girl has died of swine flu near here, taking the death toll due to the viral infection in Kerala to seven in the last one month, prompting the Health Department to issue an alert. Athira Shiju, a post-natal patient under reatment for bilateral pneumonia at a private medical college hospital at Venjaramood in the district died yesterday, Health Department sources said. With this, the death toll in the state since the outbreak of the H1N1 last year rose to 44, Dr Amar, nodal officer for H1N1 in the health department told . 'Both the government and private hospitals have been alerted and doctors are being updated on how to tackle the situation,' he said. The infection, which was mostly found among people coming from abroad in its earlier phase, was now community spread following which we have stepped up the vigilance, he said. Kerala had urged the Centre to provide 35,000 to 45,000
doses of vaccine this year, since 80 per cent of the vaccine allotted to the state had been utilised. Right now there are five positive cases in the state-- two in Kannur district and one each in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Alappuzha. Also, 21 persons are quarantined in hospitals and 20 under home quarantine. Throat swabs of 20 suspected patients have been sent for testing.
Meanwhile, spread of other types of fever like dengue has been reported from different parts of Kerala, especially from rural areas. The health care scenario got complicated due to rift between doctors and the government over 'mass transfer' of
doctors following implementation of 'special cadre' system in the state. Reports from across the state said that many government hospitals were suffering from paucity of doctors as many of the newly transfered doctors were yet to take charge.
Health Minister P K Sreemathi had yesterday warned the doctors of stern action if they failed to report for duty within 24 hours of receiving transfer orders. However, Kerala Government Medical Officers Association (KGMOA) held that doctors would not giving in to such threats. KGMO has demanded immediate steps to correct anomalies in the selection of special cadres with specialisation, who had been posted to rural and semi-urban areas. Helath Department sources, however, said that all necessary steps would be taken to ensure smooth functioning of state-run hospitals, especially in view of incidence of monsoon season diseases
.
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Thiruvananthapuram: A 19-year-old girl has died of swine flu near here, taking the death toll due to the viral infection in Kerala to seven in the last one month, prompting the Health Department to issue an alert. Athira Shiju, a post-natal patient under reatment for bilateral pneumonia at a private medical college hospital at Venjaramood in the district died yesterday, Health Department sources said. With this, the death toll in the state since the outbreak of the H1N1 last year rose to 44, Dr Amar, nodal officer for H1N1 in the health department told . 'Both the government and private hospitals have been alerted and doctors are being updated on how to tackle the situation,' he said. The infection, which was mostly found among people coming from abroad in its earlier phase, was now community spread following which we have stepped up the vigilance, he said. Kerala had urged the Centre to provide 35,000 to 45,000
doses of vaccine this year, since 80 per cent of the vaccine allotted to the state had been utilised. Right now there are five positive cases in the state-- two in Kannur district and one each in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Alappuzha. Also, 21 persons are quarantined in hospitals and 20 under home quarantine. Throat swabs of 20 suspected patients have been sent for testing.
Meanwhile, spread of other types of fever like dengue has been reported from different parts of Kerala, especially from rural areas. The health care scenario got complicated due to rift between doctors and the government over 'mass transfer' of
doctors following implementation of 'special cadre' system in the state. Reports from across the state said that many government hospitals were suffering from paucity of doctors as many of the newly transfered doctors were yet to take charge.
Health Minister P K Sreemathi had yesterday warned the doctors of stern action if they failed to report for duty within 24 hours of receiving transfer orders. However, Kerala Government Medical Officers Association (KGMOA) held that doctors would not giving in to such threats. KGMO has demanded immediate steps to correct anomalies in the selection of special cadres with specialisation, who had been posted to rural and semi-urban areas. Helath Department sources, however, said that all necessary steps would be taken to ensure smooth functioning of state-run hospitals, especially in view of incidence of monsoon season diseases
.
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