Swine Flu Toll In India 47, Health Minister Livid

gulam-nabi-azad_0AS more people succumbed to the H1N1 Swine Flu virus in the past couple of days, the death toll nationwide has risen to 47.

Reacting sharply to the situation, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, lashed out at the state governments for not doing enough to contain the situation of the pandemic.

According to the minster, the agencies at the center were working flat out; it is the states who are not shouldering as much responsibility at they should be, and have “forgotten their duty”.

“This is the maximum limit we could stretch ourselves to. Beyond this the state governments should shoulder their responsibility which they haven’t done,” Azad said, as quoted in The Indian Express.

The minister wants to concentrate on strategies like involving private sector in test and treatment, separating patients according to the severity of their symptoms and spreading awareness about the disease with his counterparts from various states.

As on Thursday, reports put the total number of those afflicted by the disease to 2,401, a health ministry official said in Delhi. Meanwhile, 56 fresh positive cases were reported in the city since yesterday, officials said.

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