The State Government will launch a H1N1 flu vaccination drive on May 5 that will cover 32,000 doctors, nurses, paramedics and journalists especially those who cover health issues, in the first phase of the drive. This was announced by Health and GDD Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday.
Pune More than two weeks after nearly 34,000 doses of the imported swine flu vaccine were procured by the state, the vaccination record among the high-risk population of doctors
and paramedical workers in Pune and other districts continues to be dismal.
A TOP official of the World Health Organization on Tu esday admitted that the global swine flu scare was unnecessarily exaggerated, an allegation the international body faced when the killer disease claimed thousands of lives in several countries including India.
Hyderabad, March 28: The death of a 22-year-old in Gandhi Hospital on Friday has put the city on swine flu alert again.
This is the first swine flu death reported this year.
Reddy Basha, a Kurnool resident suffering from multi-organ problems, was admitted to Gandhi Hospital a few days ago where he was diagnosed to have swine flu.
