Nipah Virus: Doctors, Staff of Balussery Hospital Asked to Take Leave

KOZHIKODE:
The health department has directed the doctors and other staff at the Baluserry hospital to go on leave under the circumstance of two patients dying due to Nipah viral infection.
The doctors and staff have been asked to take a leave for a week’s time. The director of the health department has said that a replacement facility would be provided.
The health department had earlier issued a notice stating that those who had been in the casualty, CT Scan room, and waiting room of the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital on May 5 and May 14; and those who visited the Balussery Taluk Hospital on May 18 and May 19 must contact the State Nipah Cell immediately.
The health department has adopted precautionary measures as three more people died due to Nipah viral infection. Nevertheless, the department is apprehensive as the death toll rises and because the origin of the infection has not yet been traced.
Rasin (25), a native of Naduvannur in Kozhikode, and who had been under treatment since the past three days had died the other day. With this the death toll due to Nipah viral infection has risen to 17.