Jammu & Kashmir has adequate H1N1 vaccine

The Centre has sent 15,000 doses of anti-viral vaccine for the treatment of swine flu cases in Jammu and Kashmir as a precautionary measure, the Legislative Council was told today.
    
Minister for health Sham Lal Sharma said the state has sufficient stocks of Tamiflu vaccines for the treatment of swine flu patients.
    
The drug-testing laboratories at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Srinagar and Government Medical College (GMC) hospital in Jammu are being updated and equipped for tests, he said to a supplementary question.
    
Once the laboratories are upgraded, blood samples need not be sent outside the state for H1N1 test, he said.
    
Earlier, replying to the main question of Ajay Kumar Sadhotra (NC), the minister said four-year-old Sonu of Chowkichora, who died in a hospital at Nowshera in Rajouri district on March 12, had contacted pneumonia.
    
Other suspected cases of swine flu were tested negative in test, he said.