New Delhi, Aug 7 (Inditop.com) Three Delhi doctors tested positive for influenza A(H1N1) Friday and have been quarantined in a designated hospitals, a health official said.
“Three doctors have tested positive for swine flu today,” Delhi Health Secretary J.P. Singh told Inditop Friday.
He said that Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia had said that “all hospitals under the Delhi government will screen and counsel swine flu patients, but whether they are to be quarantined will depend on the doctor”.
Walia held a meeting with her ministry officials and asked them to follow the guidelines issued by the union health ministry.
According to Walia, there are 31 swine flu patients in Delhi currently. Of these, 20 are admitted to various hospitals across the city while the remaining 11 are quarantined at home.
Meanwhile, a Class 6 student of Sanskriti School who was suspected to be down with swine flu Thursday evening tested negative for the disease Friday after her samples were sent to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD).
Anjali Bali, a teacher of the school, said: “On Thursday a student was suspected to have contracted swine flu. In the evening the child was said to have tested positive, therefore the school decided to remain closed today as a precautionary measure.”
“We had got in touch with students and parents immediately and told them about the school’s decision,” she added.
“However, after the student’s sample was tested negative at the NICD we are now re-opening on Monday,” Bali, a member of the school’s Parents-Teachers Association (PTA), told Inditop.
Abha Sehgal, principal of the school, said that after the swine flu scare the school was immediately sanitised.
“We informed the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) about the suspected swine flu case and they took prompt action in sanitising the school,” Sehgal said.
