Bhubaneswar, August 20: A doctor and a nurse of a medical college in Orissa were put in isolation after they developed symptoms of swine flu.
“The blood and swab samples of a junior doctor and a senior staff nurse at SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack along with nine others were sent for confirmatory swine flu test to Kolkata”, a senior health department official said.
He said the doctors were being imparted training on handling suspected swine flu cases by keeping themselves safe.
The fear among doctors at SCB Medical College and Hospital was evident when a suspected swine flu patient from Dhenkanal district reached near the quarantine ward today.
“Neither the doctor nor any nurse came to take me to the ward,” the suspected person who worked at Mumbai told reporters in Cuttack.
While the health department sent 11 more blood and swab samples for laboratory test, two more suspected swine flu patients were admitted at Malkangiri district hospital today.
Both of them were staying with a group of 50 migrant workers from Orissa in Chennai. As two of them tested positive for H1N1 virus, these two persons left Chennai.
Of the total 23 samples so far tested, three were positive to the killer virus while rest were negative.
—Agencies