Tough task for GMC to prevent virus spread
99 samples sent for testing since August 7, 10 reports received, 3 test positive. What’s the state of the other 89 is an hazardous guess
as the Pune-based National Institute of Virolgy struggles to cope up with the plethora of samples that are being sent to it from all over the state.
With the first reports coming only on Wednesday after a few tension-filled days, there is every possibility that the swine flu is spreading its tentacles in the city especially as the Government Medical College and Hospital, the only unit equipped to tackle the disease, has discharged most of the patients who could be moving around freely.
The state government needs to find ways to ensure that reports are sent within a day or two, from the testing centres. Else, Nagpur and Vidarbha could be sitting on a time bomb. Threat of the infection spreading more than 600 samples daily. On Wednesday, the institute received a whopping 900 samples.
"The flow of samples has increased exponentially in the last few days, with most of them coming from Pune and Mumbai. We have started looking at samples from other parts of the state, like Nagpur, from today,” NIV deputy director Mandeep Chadha told TOI on Wednesday. ing further and reaching unmanageable proportions cannot be ruled out if the reports of the blood and swab samples of suspected cases are not released in the minimum possible time of 1-2 days. Better late than never, the National Institute of Virolgy has now started taking up to testing samples from other parts of the state now. It hopes to clear the Nagpur backlog by Thursday. The NIV, which has the capacity to test only 300 samples a day, has been receiving more than 600 samples daily.
On Wednesday, the institute received a whopping 900 samples. "The flow of samples has increased exponentially in the last few days, with most of them coming from Pune and Mumbai. We have started looking at samples from other parts of the state, like Nagpur, from today,” NIV deputy director Mandeep Chadha told TOI on Wednesday.
99 samples sent for testing since August 7, 10 reports received, 3 test positive. What’s the state of the other 89 is an hazardous guess
as the Pune-based National Institute of Virolgy struggles to cope up with the plethora of samples that are being sent to it from all over the state.
With the first reports coming only on Wednesday after a few tension-filled days, there is every possibility that the swine flu is spreading its tentacles in the city especially as the Government Medical College and Hospital, the only unit equipped to tackle the disease, has discharged most of the patients who could be moving around freely.
The state government needs to find ways to ensure that reports are sent within a day or two, from the testing centres. Else, Nagpur and Vidarbha could be sitting on a time bomb. Threat of the infection spreading more than 600 samples daily. On Wednesday, the institute received a whopping 900 samples.
"The flow of samples has increased exponentially in the last few days, with most of them coming from Pune and Mumbai. We have started looking at samples from other parts of the state, like Nagpur, from today,” NIV deputy director Mandeep Chadha told TOI on Wednesday. ing further and reaching unmanageable proportions cannot be ruled out if the reports of the blood and swab samples of suspected cases are not released in the minimum possible time of 1-2 days. Better late than never, the National Institute of Virolgy has now started taking up to testing samples from other parts of the state now. It hopes to clear the Nagpur backlog by Thursday. The NIV, which has the capacity to test only 300 samples a day, has been receiving more than 600 samples daily.
On Wednesday, the institute received a whopping 900 samples. "The flow of samples has increased exponentially in the last few days, with most of them coming from Pune and Mumbai. We have started looking at samples from other parts of the state, like Nagpur, from today,” NIV deputy director Mandeep Chadha told TOI on Wednesday.