New Delhi: The city Thursday reported 166 fresh H1N1 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of cases this year to 2,612, even as Delhi health department stepped up hospital preparedness and surveillance.
“Even if the number of patients increases, we have further arrangements and a plan in place,” he said. The hospital has also set up an H1N1 clinic where suspected patients will be examined and tested before those found positive are shifted to the isolation ward. Essential medicines, testing facilities, specialist doctors, nursing staff and laboratory technicians are available, with hospital capacity to be strengthened further wherever required.
Influenza A , too, is on the rise, with cumulative cases crossing 3,300, according to govt.
Adequate arrangements have been made to ensure there was no gap in patient care, he said. Health minister Pankaj Kumar Singh inspected Indira Gandhi Hospital in Dwarka Wednesday to review arrangements, including an H1N1 isolation ward, testing facilities, medicines, oxygen and beds.