JAIPUR: Taking lessons from the outbreak of swine flu in December and January last year, the health department has taken precautionary measures to deal with the H1N1 influenza effectively.
"We have trained our doctors in district hospitals how to operate ventilators for patients suffering from swine flu," Dr B R Meena, director (health) said.
Sporadic cases of swine flu were reported recently. One patient who tested positive for swine flu is undergoing treatment in Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital and one patient had died last week.
Dr Meena said, since last year, swine flu cases reported in large numbers started from December and January, they have taken adequate precautionary measures. "Medicines have already been supplied to all the health centres for treatment of swine flu," he said adding that they are putting efforts to strengthen treatment of swine flu at district hospitals.
In the outbreak of swine flu early in 2015, the hospitals associated with medical colleges had reported large number of patients getting admitted for treatment as district hospitals did not have proper ventilator and life support facilities. But, now the district hospitals have been equipped with these facilities and more than 50 doctors have already been trained for providing treatment to swine flu patients on ventilators.
2015 has reported highest number of cases (6,770) since its outbreak in 2009.