Pune overflow by swine flu cases

Of the 13 suspected cases who have been quarantined in various government hospitals across the state, five are students from Pune who have come home with flu symptoms. Friends of atleast three of these students have also been diagnosed positive for the disease. One of the suspects, quarantined at Jodhpur has ran away from the hospital.
"The laxity on part of the health machinery in Pune has created a menace at our end, they must make some arrangements to control the outflow of suspected cases," a senior health official said.
The state health department is apprehensive as not only the risk of these cases being positive runs high, if left unattended they would spread the disease in the state. Earlier too, a couple of students who had returned from Pune had shown flu symptoms, but none of them tested positive. 
On Wednesday, eight suspected cases of swine flu were quarantined at the SMS hospital isolation ward in Jaipur. They are an 18-year-old youth from Dholpur who had recently been on a trip to Madhya Pradesh, a 16 year old boy from Kotputali, a woman from Ajmer, other four suspected patients are from Jaipur, which includes two Pune-returned students.
In Kota, three students have been quarantined, while in Ajmer one person has been admitted at the isolation ward, after he returned from a foreign trip. The samples collected from these patients have been sent to National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) for tests.
Till date 52 samples have been collected across state, five of which tested positive and four treated at SMS Hospital. Reports of nearly 20 suspected patients are yet to arrive. The health department has also increased its preparations and has acquired more supplies of drugs and protection kit. "We have received additional stock of the antiviral drugs and protection kit for the infected patients as well as their kins," Dr B R Meena, additional director health department, said.