TIRUPATI/VIJAYAWADA: Following the alert from the Kerala Government, a lady doctor and her family members in Chittoor district were shifted to SVR Ruia Government General Hospital for possible Nipah virus infection on Saturday late night. However, she and her family members were found healthy without having any symptoms of Nipah virus infection.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who came to know about the incident during a review meeting on Sunday morning, directed Chittoor District Collector PS Pradyumna to visit Ruia Hospital and submit a report to him.
The Collector visited the lady doctor and interacted with Ruia Hospital doctors who examined her. He said she was healthy and there was no infection. She was kept under observation of a team of specialist doctors at Ruia Hospital. The the lady doctor, who hails from V Kota in Chittoor district, is working in Kerala. She and other doctors had treated a Nipah virus victim in a hospital in Kerala. She came to her native place later.
Meanwhile, the medical and health department in Kerala finding some more suspected cases of Nipah in the hospital, where she had worked, put all the doctors, who treated her under quarantine. As she was missing, they alerted AP health department.