A day after a school student from Ambala died of swine flu here, the UT health department has shifted the entire onus of the detection of the symptomatic flu cases on schools in Chandigarh.
The department today issued strict instructions to schools to screen its students and report the suspected cases to hospitals.
It was decided that the school would be held responsible for not informing any flu like illness to the local Health authorities, if any student continues to attend classes during fever.
In a meeting chaired by the Health Secretary Ram Niwas, it was decided that all class teachers should begin their class with active screening of each student so as to detect student with symptoms of flu (mild fever with cough/ sore throat with or without body ache, headache, diarrhea and vomiting).
“If such a student is detected, he/she should be referred immediately to the medical facility or to a nearby hospital. He/she should be further advised to stay at home for 7 days and observe strict discipline of home isolation,” stated the new instructions.
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