Modi talks with Azad,demands more kits and tablets for Gujarat

Following the first swine flu fatality in the state, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today held a meeting with Health Department officials in Gandhinagar to review the situation.

Modi also wrote a letter to Union Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad requesting him to immediately supply 250 reagent medical kits and tamiflu tablets and also issue guidelines for involving well equipped private hospitals and medical laboratories in the state in testing and treatment of patients affected by the virus.

Gujarat has created a facility of 300 bed isolation capacity in total in state’s all government run civil and general hospitals.