Mumbai Mirror
On the day Mumbai recorded its second swine-flu related death, a few cool lessons from this school where 17 students were diagnosed with the infection and went on to get well. Seventeen boarding students have survived swine flu at St Peter’s School, Panchgani, and only because school authorities were quick to react when they started showing symptoms like persistent fever, cough and cold. When the boys didn’t get well after being treated by school doctors at the campus hospital, they called in senior doctors who took the students’ throat swabs. Two days later, they confirmed that 17 out of 32 affected students had tested positive for swine flu. The school immediately put the 17 students in two quarantine rooms. Suspected swine flu cases were kept in another room. Tamiflu tablets for five days and a two-week quarantine were enough to put the boys back on their feet, along with a good dose of ‘tender loving care’ from school principal Nitin Salvi, whose son was among those quarantined. - click here
Well done St. Peters!
Dr. Swati Piramal had cautioned the Maharashtra C.M. at CII, in the beginning of May that Maharashtra was at Bio Security Level 2 (inadequate). She had called for a core committee to be set up to focus on policy development; & the up-gradation of labs, provision of auto analyzers, development of vaccines, provision of anti-virals and distribution. Its been 3 months now. Have we moved forward satisfactorily?
