Two symptomatic healthcare workers under observation for Nipah in Kozhikode
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Health Department prepares contact list of 188 persons
Efforts to trace the source of Chathamangalam are on even as the Health Department has prepared a contact list of 188 persons, including healthcare workers, of a of the infection on Sunday morning. Health Minister Veena George told the media after a high-level meeting that two of the contacts were symptomatic and were under surveillance. They are healthcare workers at the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Kozhikode, and a private hospital, respectively. Ms. George said that a total of 20 contacts, who had been deemed high-risk, would be shifted to the MCH. Others on the list were under isolation. Around a hundred of the total contacts are staff at MCH and 36 others are workers in a private hospital. “The pay ward at the MCH is being converted as a Nipah ward. Those who test positive for the virus will be shifted to the ground floor. Symptomatic patients and others will be accommodated on the first and second floors. An intensive care unit too has been set aside for the treatment,” she said.More Related News