Health minister to take strict action on health workers
Health Minister
Khagaraj Adhikari has said that action will be taken on health workers who do
not reach their working areas within 24 hours of the issuance of the
government's directive. Speaking at a programme organised in the capital on the
epidemic that has gripped Jajarkot in recent days, Minister Adhikari said
health workers who do not abide by the government's directive would be liable
to action and replaced with other new appointments.
According to information
given by the minister, contraction of flu was found only in 25 per cent of the
tests conducted on 4,000 patients, and that traces of swine flu were found only
in 33 per cent of the patients who have died in this duration. He
informed that with adoption of high alert, health tests were being conducted
also in districts bordering swine flu affected Jajarkot like Jumla, Rukum,
Dailekh, and Surkhet among others.