Open spl health camps in rural areas to curb swine flu spread

: Former Welfare Minister P Rajavelu today urged the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Services to ensure that special health camps are held in rural areas to prevent spread of the swine flu.

In a press releaes here, he said he had written to the DHFWS, bringing to its notice the hardships of the people in rural areas with the disease spreading fast.

Rajavelu said he had specifically mentioned the predicament of villagers in Nettapakkam and that he had visited the village recently.

The former minister claimed that four persons hailing from different parts in Puducherry had died of swine flu and a number of patients were taking treatment at hospitals in and around Puducherry.
 

The government should spray insecticide to strike at the breeding of mosquitoes, the main vector of the disease.

He demanded that Primary Health Centres in Nettapakkam segment be run round the clock to rise to any exigency and all necessary medicines be made adequately available.

During an emergency patients should also be transported to Puducherry Government Chest hospital or to JIPMER, for which ambulances should also be in place in villages, he said.