BHUBANESWAR: The Health Department today asked all three government medical colleges as well as district headquarters hospitals to report within seven days about the preparatory measures for prevention of H1N1.
With winter setting in, the Department is now keen to know availability of vaccine at the various tiers of hospitals. After the H1N1 outbreak earlier this year, health institutions till block levels were supplied the vaccines.
Health Minister Prasanna Acharya and Secretary Anu Garg took stock of the preparatory steps and sought from the hospitals details of special wards identified if H1N1 is reported again. The fresh guidelines on H1N1 will also be circulated among all the administrative departments.