The dreadful flu has hit Kerala too. The first critical flu case was reported from Thiruvananthapuram. The official version is that in all 53 persons had so far been hit by H1N1 flu in Kerala. However the true picture may be far from the published. This I say when Chikungunea hit and a few dead, the Minister in charge of Health Services argued that there was not even a single case of Chickungunea death. The minister had later corrected her stand after the interference of the Chief Minister V S Achuthanadnan.
Though the death rate in Kerala due to other fevers and diseases are very high than swine flu the media has spread panic about the flu situation. The precautionary measures taken by the Kerala Health Department to contain the spread of flu and the panic created by it is not satisfactory. Hence it is time for opening more flu monitoring centres to reduce the panic among public. Street sanitation and mosquito eradication should also be done at a war footing.
K A Solaman
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