Hyderabad: A 40-year-old man, who returned from abroad in Kamareddy district Telanganahave shown symptoms of monkeypox, state health officials said on Sunday. patient being transferred government fever hospital Here, he said.
The man who showed symptoms of monkeypox had arrived from Kuwait on 6 July and developed fever on 20 July.
The state’s director of public health had admitted the man to a private hospital in Kamareddy district on July 23 after he developed a rash. G Srinivasa Rao said in a release.
The man who showed symptoms of monkeypox had arrived from Kuwait on 6 July and developed fever on 20 July.
The state’s director of public health had admitted the man to a private hospital in Kamareddy district on July 23 after he developed a rash. G Srinivasa Rao said in a release.
Rao said the doctor at the private hospital after seeing symptoms of monkeypox referred the person to the government hospital in Kamareddy district and from there the patient was being taken to the fever hospital here.
After taking the sample from the patient, it will be sent to NIV Pune and till then the patient will be kept in the isolation ward.
“We have identified six people who were in contact with the person. Though they have no symptoms, they have also been kept in isolation,” the senior health official said.
The health official said Telangana Health Minister T Harish Rao reviewed the situation and based on his instructions all necessary measures are being taken.