Get vaccinated for swine flu: BMC

Get vaccinated for swine flu: BMC

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 11:30 PM IST
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Mumbai : The civic body urged high-risk category group of elderly, pregnant women, infants, hypertension and diabetes to get vaccinated against swine flu. This has come in the wake of rising cases and deaths in the city owing to influenza virus. City health experts stated that high-risk category peo-ple have weak immunity system making them the most vulnera-ble of the entire lot to fall prey to the disease. Swine flu has so far claimed 30 lives in the city and a total of 60 cases have been registe-red in August alone. Following this, city doctors state that vaccines will act as a shield and give protec-tion to people from the influenza virus. Dr Om Sri-vastava, head of infectious diseases department at Jaslok Hospital, said, “Prevention is always better than cure and getting vaccinated against swine flu will definitely act as huge protection for high-risk category group.” Along with Kasturba Hospi-tal in Chinch-pokli, pregnant women can now get free vaccines at three maternity homes of Prabha-devi, Oshiwara and eastern Bhandup. Dr Minni Khetarpal, head of epidemiology cell at BMC, said, “We have made free vaccines available for preg-nant women belo-nging to the second trimester. At this stage, we urge high-risk category group to get voluntarily vaccinated against swine flu.”

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