New Delhi:
In a shocking and dangerous breach of health safety rules the Delhi government has allowed a well-connected patient suffering from swine flu to stay at home and not be quarantined in a government-designated place.
The health ministry is furious with the state government and has written a letter to the chief secretary.
The patient returned from New York recently and is now at a farm house in South Delhi.
As a result of being allowed to stay at home, the patient's mother has also got swine flu.
The two are the first cases of swine flu in Delhi.
Meanwhile, the health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad wants American airports officials to screen passengers with symptoms of the swine flu before they board their flights to India.
He has written to the union external affairs minister S M Krishna on the issue of checking the entry of the disease. Azad wants Krishna to put in a request with the US airport officials.