By IANS,
Lucknow : Two kin of employees of the city’s Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) have tested positive for swine flu. Health authorities are worried as the viral infection has reached the secondary stage in them, an official said Saturday.
One of the patients is the wife of an employee while the other is the teenaged daughter of another employee.
“This is the first time that we have encountered active secondary infection and that too among the close kin of our institute employees,” SGPGIMS microbiology department head T.N. Dhole told IANS.
“We have admitted both of them in a special isolation ward dedicated to swine flu patients,” he said.
“We are well equipped to handle the cases and are taking adequate care to prevent the infection from being passed on to others,” the doctor added.
According to him, earlier a engineering student was found to be a secondary infection swine flu case, “but he had neither fever nor any other swine flu symptom, so his parents insisted on keeping him quarantined at home”.
“Fortunately, all the other 45 cases were found as primary infection, which is quite easily curable,” he added.
The count of swine flu patients in Uttar Pradesh has gone up to 48.
Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Anant Kumar Misra claimed: “Things are well under control as we have sufficient stock of Tamiflu tablets, which is the best treatment for the virus.”