Staff Reporter
Dimapur, August 27 (EMN): At least one person has been diagnosed as suffering from swine flu in Dimapur, even as health authorities in the state are yet to confirm the outbreak.
Eastern Mirror can confirm that a patient admitted to the Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (CIHSR) recently was advised by the doctors to undergo a testing process at a lab in Assam’s Guwahati, the result of which detected that she was suffering from swine flu (H1N1).
But even after a lapse of at least 3-4 days since the diagnose, neither the hospital where she was first admitted nor the state health authorities has made the detection public.
According to the patient’s family members, the hospital had told the family that it could only declare the outbreak if there was an official declaration of the same from the state department concerned. Calls made to health officials of Nagaland government as well as CIHSR authorities, to confirm this information, went unanswered.
It was also informed that after the woman was diagnosed with swine flu at Guwahati, some of her family members also sought to undergo tests in Kohima.
But reportedly, the government hospital at Kohima was not even equipped with the required tubes to collect samples/swabs.
