Kozhikode: Three years after the Nipah outbreak in 2018 who claimed 17 lives, the virus had reappeared in the state by claiming the life of a 12-year-old boy Chathamangalam, Kozhikode on Sunday.
With the country reporting nearly 30,000 Covid-19 cases every day, the State Health Department has increased its vigilance to other outbreaks.
The authorities have identified 188 contacts near the boy, including 20 have been categorized as high risk.
Health Minister Veena George said two health workers, from these contacts, had developed symptoms.
One of them came from a private hospital while the other originated from the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital.
Then on that day, the boy was also isolated after he developed symptoms.
The central team – led by Dr.
P Raveendran, adviser to the National Disaster Management Authority, and K Reghu, an additional director, the center of the National Disease – Sunday visiting the Hospital and Hospital and Clinic Hospital.
It also checks the possibility of a source of infection and examines rambutan trees near the children’s house.
The boy was inhaled the last in a private hospital in the city around 5am.
The minister confirmed the death on Sunday morning and said the three samples were collected from him – plasma, cerebrospinal and serum fluils – found positively in the test carried out at the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune.
188 Contacts Traced, One Week Next, Important: The Minister of Health of Children was first taken to a private clinic at Eranhimavu with a fever on August 29 and then the four other hospitals.
In accordance with the route map released by the Kozhikode District Administration, he was taken to two private hospitals and Kozhikode Medical College hospitals two days later.
On Wednesday, he was taken to another private hospital in Kozhikode City, where he died.
The majority of people identified are temporary health workers sources say around 100 of them are from medical college hospitals.
“We have tracked 188 contacts so far.
Wider contract tracking will be done soon.
The child began to show symptoms on August 27 and consider the incubation period of the virus, the next one week was very important,” Veena said.
The minister said the government had searched for a testing mechanism at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital itself.
“Tests are carried out directly by NIV.
They have told us that on Monday night, the treatment point of treatment, namely Truenat testing, will be arranged at Kozhikode Medical College,” he said, adding that the team from NIV Pune will run this facility.
He said the confirmation test would be carried out on Pune NIV if there were samples found positively at the treatment point of treatment.
“Time is a critical nature and they have told us that the results of the sample sent will be available within 12 hours,” he said.
Veena said the availability of drugs was also monitored.
“There will be no shortcomings.
New monoclonal antibodies have been sought and ICMR has contacted Australia.
Antibodies will be available in seven days,” he said.
The body is buried in Kannamparambu Khabaristan at night, where health workers wear a PPE kit conducted burial.
Special call centers for Nipah have also been arranged and can be contacted at 0495-2382500 and 0495-2382800.
The negative pressure ICU at Medical College Hospital will be used to treat nipah patients.
The Ministry of Health investigates if there is a hose in the part of the medical college hospital authority in not sending the boy’s sample for the previous Nipah test.
The hospital authorities maintain that the condition of the child suddenly deteriorated and there was a lack of ventilator in the hospital.
The family also insisted on moving it to a private hospital, they said.
Pinarayi Vijayan’s chairman, meanwhile, said in Thiruvananthapuram that the effort was to trace the source of the virus.
All hospitals have been directed to report unusual fever and deaths and steps have been taken for fast data submission, he said.