Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 20: Several cases of swine flu (H1N1) have been reported from Kashmir’s premier hospital, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS). However, doctors said there is nothing to worry about as the flu has a treatment and gets cured like other flues.
There are at least 3 cases of swine flu being treated in ward 5 of SKIMS, Soura in Srinagar under MRD Nos 738278, 738405 and 738224. These patients are from South Kashmir and Srinagar and they have tested positive for the swine flu.
This is not for the first time that swine flu has been reported in Kashmir. Over a dozen patients, mostly who had caught it from outside the State were reported in 2009 when swine flu broke out in India on a large scale and in a year over 1800 people died of this flu across the country. Last year over 350 people died of this disease across India.
Director SKIMS, Shoukat Ahmad Zargar, told Excelsior that swine flu or H1N1 cases are being reported in SKIMS. However, he said that there is nothing to worry about the diseases as drugs are available with the hospital and a patient gets cured in a week’s time.
Zargar said that according to World Health Organization (WHO) Swine flu has now moved into post pandemic period. He said that this spreads as seasonal influenza and in winters with other influenza its cases are being reported in the hospital.
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