Separate wards, staff in Maharashtra private hospitals

As the swine flu toll in India rose to four on Sunday, the central government announced major policy decisions in the battle against the global pandemic.

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has asked the government of Maharashtra — where three of the deaths have occurred — to make it mandatory for all major private hospitals to isolate wards and designate and train staff to handle cases of H1N1 infection.

All big hospitals both private and government in Pune, Satara and Mumbai are required, with immediate effect, to assign separate halls or wards and special OPDs for patients suspected to have swine flu.

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