Puducherry, August 10: Puducherry government has decided to initiate multi-departmental activivites to sensitise people on steps to be taken if symptoms of ‘swine flu’ have been noticed.
Chief Minister V Vaithilingam told during a press conference today that the departments of school education, women and child welfare, civic bodies and tourism launched steps to approach the people to create awareness among them as to what steps they should take whenever symptoms of H1N1 flu were seen.
He said all the four suspected cases reported at JIPMER were tested negative.
Puducherry health department had put in place a ten-bed quarantine ward for treatment of chest diseases in the hospital at Gorimedu near here.
School students and their parents would be apprised of various ‘dos and donts’ they should adopt, he said.
Health machinery in all the four regions and also in rural areas had been geared up, he said.
—Agencies