Source: Internet
Kolkata 28 January : After the death of a 32-year old Thai national on Monday at a private hospital in Kolkata and a patient admitted with suspected case of corona virus at the isolation ward of Beleghata ID Hospital, the state health department has decided to step up vigil in all the district hospitals and also quarantine the foreign tourists who are admitted at various hospitals with the symptoms of mild fever headache and breathing difficulties.
Senior doctors at Beleghata ID Hospital said although they have not received any positive corona virus patient yet, there is a possibility of contamination with other patients and so it is advisable to keep foreign tourists in the quarantine ward if someone is suspected of suffering from the deadly disease.
In West Bengal, around 800 isolation wards have been set up in various state-run hospitals to admit patients suspected of carrying corona virus . Even foreign tourists who are suspected of suffering from this disease are firstly treated at a medical centre inside Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport , before they are being referred to any hospital.
According to Amitava Nandi, senior virologist of School of Tropical Medicine, it is advisable for all patients to conduct a blood test and immediately consult a specialist if someone is suffering from mild fever coupled with headache, back pain and nausea .
The Thai national left Thailand in late November and also visited Nepal before coming to India.
Sources in the hospital said: “From January 18, she started having stomach problem, nausea and fever. As her condition deteriorated, she came to the hospital emergency 11 p.m. on January 21 and was admitted to the ICU.”
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that globally, about a billion cases of illness and millions of deaths occur every year from zoonoses, i.e, diseases and infections naturally transmitted between people and vertebrate animals. Around 60 per cent of emerging infectious diseases globally are zoonoses. Of the over 30 new human pathogens detected over the last three decades, 75 per cent originated in animals.
Meanwhile, the Union government has already begun the process to evacuate Indian nationals affected by the situation arising out of Corona 2019 virus outbreak in Hubei province.
Here is a tweet from Raveesh Kumar , official spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs on this regard .
Dr Nandi said: “It has been observed globally that wherever there is unregulated mixing of humans and animals especially unregulated mixing of blood and other body parts, there is greater chance of a transmission of a virus from animals to human body. The wild food markets in China is a place for transmission of deadly virus” .