COLOMBO, March 4: Sri Lanka’s health ministry has asked over 40 hospitals in the country to take precautionary steps against bird flu following an outbreak in India. A spokesman for the ministry said the hospitals concerned were being upgraded to face any eventuality.
“We are prepared. The necessary equipment and medicines are currently stocked at the health ministry stores and will be distributed to the hospitals soon”, the spokesman said. Following a significant drop in poultry purchase, officials are trying to convince the public that there was no need to panic as no bird flu cases had been found in Sri Lanka as yet.
