All schools in Sundargarh under surveillance for swine flu

All schools, both private and government-run, in the tribal dominated Sundargarh district were kept under surveillance as seven students in two Kanyashrama schools tested positive for H1NI virus.

Sundaragarh Chief District Medical Officer B K Kindo today said a mild variety of swine flu hit the area, but the authorities had taken all steps to prevent it. He advised the people not to panic.

Swabs of two students of Navodaya Vidyalaya at Sargipalli were sent to the Regional Medical Research Centre at Bhubaneswar for H1N1 flu test.

As many as 16 students of the schools were suffering from cold and fever.

Earlier, five students of Jamapalli Kanyashram in Rajgangpur block of the district and two students of Chudalaga M E School had tested positive to Swine flu.

Director of Health Services and eight medical teams with sufficient medicines were camping in the district and help desks were set up at the bus stands to monitor the situation.

The authority had identified 23 schools located close to the two Kanyashrama schools for conducting a thorough medical check-up of the students.

Official report said so far 16 people in the state had been tested positive to H1N1 virus and two of them, a doctor from SAIL and a woman, had died.

While the doctor died at a private hospital in Delhi, the women died at a private hospital at Bhubaneswar.

-- (UNI) -- 06CA58.xml

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