Kolkata: After a six-year-old girl tested positive for swine flu, West Bengal’s total has reached nine.
Six of the patients have been sent home after treatment, state Additional Health Secretary Samar Ghosh said.
A total of 31 cases have been referred to the Beliaghata ID hospital, he added.
The six-year-old girl from Howrah along with her mother were also referred to the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Disease with swine flu symptoms.
While the mother tested negative, the girl was admitted to the Beliaghata ID hospital where she has been kept at the isolation ward, Ghosh told at a press conference in Kolkata.
He said though the situation in the state was not “alarming”, the Government is aware of the rapid spread of the disease all over the country and had decided to set up new special influenza testing laboratories in the state.
“The Government has decided to set up three special influenza testing laboratories in the city – one each in Beliaghata ID Hospital, R G Kar College and Hospital and NRS Medical College and Hospital,” Ghosh said.
Eight admitted to hospital in Kolkata
Eight persons, including two doctors and a family of four who arrived from Singapore on Saturday morning, were admitted to a hospital for suspected symptoms of swine flu.
The family of four from Bihar, who had gone on a visit to Singapore, was admitted to Infectious Disease Hospital after two of them showed symptoms of swine flu, nodal officer for swine flu information, Tapas Sen said.
The two were detected with the symptoms at the airport when they alighted from a flight from Singapore and the family was sent immediately sent to the hospital, he said.
A doctor of the ID hospital and another from a screening clinic run by it at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport were also admitted.
Another doctor of the hospital tested negative and was released on Saturday Sen said.
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