New Threat for Pakistan “Swine Flu”

In these days, swine flu is spreading rapidly through out the world and on Aug 12, 2009, a 13-year-old child has tested positive for swine flu after undergoing various medical check ups and tests on him at Faisalabad Allied Hospital. The EDO Health Faisalabad has verified the case as H5N1 positive. The tainted teenage boy is living in Toba Tek Singh and had recently visited to Saudi Arabia;In these days, swine flu is spreading rapidly through out the world and on Aug 12, 2009, a 13-year-old child has tested positive for swine flu after undergoing various medical check ups and tests on him at Faisalabad Allied Hospital. The EDO Health Faisalabad has verified the case as H5N1 positive. The tainted teenage boy is living in Toba Tek Singh and had recently visited to Saudi Arabia; it is supposed that he picked up the virus from there.

The sad or dark side of this fact is that the Hospital has no separate rooms for the infected patients and any detection kits or equipments to tackle the situation. After passing of more than one week of this incident, government has not yet raised any step nor has any warning been issued in this perspective. Looking towards other countries that infected by swine flu they are taking serious preventive measures to handle this deadly virus.

Government has to consider this issue seriously and would have to implement protective measures at hospitals and also at all International Air Ports to tackle the situation such as peoples coming from other countries should thoroughly checked by experienced medical staff at air ports and virus detecting equipments should supplied to all major and small government hospitals.

The above review is based on Dawn.com news