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SARS orientation programme for nursing staff

By Our Staff Reporter

Pondicherry April 18. With the first confirmed case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the country having been reported from Goa, the Health Department in Pondicherry has geared itself fully to rise to any exigency, as SARS is a communicable disease.

A communication received today from the office of the Health Minister, E. Valsaraj, said the department here was in full readiness and already medical officers in the General Hospital and other health centres were sensitised on the various features of the dreaded and deadly disease.

Now an orientation programme had been planned for tomorrow to cover a batch of staff nurses, head nurses and auxiliary staff in the General Hospital and the TB Sanatorium here. The programme would be held in the General Hospital.

The Minister said all the participants would be imparted details of the practices and procedures they should follow in case any necessity arose for treatment of any patient testing positive for the disease.

Any patient suspected to be suffering from SARS would be admitted at the TB Sanatorium at Gorimedu near here where isolated wards were already kept in preparedness as a precautionary step, the Minister said.

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