MedTitans asks Govt to explore alternatives to Tamiflu drug
Mumbai | Wednesday, Aug 12 2009 IST
 

MedTitans, Indias largest and fastest growing online community of Doctors and GreatWhite Technologies, licensees of NASA developed AiroCide Enconditioning Technology, today asked the Government to explore alternatives to the Tamiflu drug and offered their expertise to help combat the spread of the disease. Comprising of some of the most experienced and renowned Doctors in the country, the MedTitans-AiroCide Swine Flu Expert Panel also announced a series of initiatives to educate and empower, not just the public, but also doctors, on how to tackle and manage the spread of the pandemic, it stated in a release issued here today. ''It is not just the public, but even Doctors need to be made aware of how to handle the situation,'' Dr Ajit Menon, Chairman, MedTitans and eminent cardiologist said. ''Through this panel, we are enabling the active involvement of both the medical fraternity as well as the private sector in managing the disease,'' he added.

Dispelling various myths that are spreading panic across the country, the MedTitans-AiroCide Swine Flu Expert Panel appealed to people to be calm and careful. ''What India needs is a change in attitude and behaviour,'' eminent Epidemiologist Dr S M Sapatnekar said. ''A little personal hygiene, civic sense and an alert mind will ensure that you are not afflicted and the virus does not spread,'' he emphasised. Highlighting the fact that even hospital environments were not safe, the Panel alongwith GreatWhite Technologies offered to donate the highly sophisticated AiroCide Enconditioning Machines to Government Hospitals like Kasturbha and Bhaba. The NASA developed and USFDA approved, state-of-the-art AiroCide Enconditioning System has the capability of annihilating almost every kind of known virus, micro-organism or pathogens including deadly gases like anthrax, Dr Sapatnekar said.

As an immediate step, the Panel announced a series of Open Forums that will be held for the public where queries and issues would be answered by them. With Swine Flu still being a relatively unknown quantity, the Panel is planning to hold numerous seminars for Doctors to guide them on how to tackle the disease, handle patients, control the spread and avoid falling prey to the virus, the release added.

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