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News - Date: 17 July 2009
The Limpopo Department of Health and Social Development has released a statement following the recent reported cases of the swine flu (H1N1-virus) in South Africa.
According to the release, all is still safe in the Limpopo Province and to date no cases of swine flu have been reported here.
The country’s first swine-flu case was detected in a 12-year-old boy who arrived from the United States on June 14.
On Wednesday (9th) the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported that the number of swine flu cases has risen to 47.
The department has already taken several contingency steps. Measures are in place to ensure that all the health facilities in the province will be able to respond if a case of swine flu is reported here.
Key steps have already been taken, including capacitating all the hospitals and clinics across the province with the necessary guidelines and sufficient treatment. The National Department of Health is constantly having line talks with all provinces to equip them with the strategy of dealing with the cases.
As a further precautionary step, the department has decided to distribute swine flu medicines at all the border posts and health facilities. All the personnel at these health facilities and border posts have also been equipped with sufficient resources and educated to handle a case of swine flu should it occur.
The department appealed to the public to seek medical attention if they have a recent travel history or if they have been in contact with a confirmed patient of influenza or swine flu.
If flu-like symptoms such as fever, a soar throat, runny nose, coughing or muscle pain are experience within seven days after arrival or contact with an infected person, a person is requested to report at the nearest health facility as soon as possible.
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