Jammu, Aug 11 (Inditop.com) A girl from here who was studying in Pune and had come home for the summer break has tested positive for swine flu.
She is the first confirmed swine flu patient in Jammu and Kashmir. Another patient tested negative and reports of four others are awaited from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases. Three of the four patients who have been tested study in Pune and Bangalore. One is a Border Security Force (BSF) soldier who returned from leave from his home in Uttar Pradesh.
Jasbir Singh, director of health services in Jammu, said: “Aakanshi from Nanak Nagar locality in Jammu studying in Pune has tested positive for H1N1 and has been asked to be admitted to a government medical college hospital today.”
“We are making arrangements for her treatment; since we don’t have the medicines and kits, we have requested the union health ministry to supply us with these,” a senior doctor of a government hospital told Inditop.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that there was no need to worry. The state would be ready to meet any eventuality.
