The Hindu 15.08.2009
Corporation launches drive to sensitise people to swine flu
Special Correspondent
| Conducts screening camps in schools, distributes pamphlets on dos, dont’s |
— PHOTO: R. M. RAJARATHINAM 
Ruling out all possibilities: Corporation doctors screening students of Adi Dravida Welfare Higher Secondary School at Periyamilaguparai for symptoms of swine flu as part of a special awareness campaign in Tiruchi on Friday.
TIRUCHI: The Corporation has launched a special drive to sensitise city residents to the A (H1N1) influenza, its symptoms and the preventive measures to be taken.
A team of Corporation doctors, led by the Health Officer, K. C. Cheran, conducted special camps in some of the schools on Friday to screen students for symptoms of swine flu. The camps were held at the Adi Dravida Welfare Higher Secondary School, Periyamilaguparai, Sacred Heart Elementary School, Sangilandapuram, St. Angel’s Middle School, Ponamalaipatti, and St. Philomena’s Higher Secondary School, Melapudur.
The students were also distributed pamphlets detailing the symptoms, preventive measures and the do’s and don’ts. Corporation officials said the screening camps would be held in more schools over the next few days.
Commissioner T. T. Balsamy, who inspected the screening camps, said the Corporation has printed 60,000 pamphlets for distribution to the city residents. Adequate preventive measures were being taken by the Corporation health wing to prevent the spread of the flu, he said.
