Swine flu centre in city soon

The Telangana government has decided to set up another diagnostic centre, exclusively to tackle swine flu cases in the city .This will be in addition to the exiting testing centres at Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) and Fever Hospital.

“This new centre will not be as big as IPM, but we are trying to identify the government hospital where it will be located,“ said Dr Manohar Rao, director Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (



NIMS) and the state nodal officer for Swine flu.

He said that the death rate in Telangana due to swine flu was still at only 1% since January when compared to states which have about 25 % death rate. In India, this year a total of 7,103 cases were reported, out of which 217 people died since January .

“Though the number of cases being sent for tests to Fever Hospital has reduced, we cannot take it lightly,“ said Dr Rao.