The Union health ministry on August 2 rushed a high-level team to Maharashtra to monitor the Zika virus situation. The decision was taken after Pune district in Maharashtra recorded the state's first case of the Zika virus infection.
As a case of Zika has been reported in the Pune district recently, The three-member Central team consists of a public health expert from the office of Regional Director, Pune; a gynecologist from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi; and an entomologist from National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), ICMR, New Delhi to monitor the situation
The team shall work closely with the State Health Department, take a stock of the situation on the ground and assess whether the Union Health Ministry's Action Plan for Zika Management is being implemented, and recommend necessary public health interventions for the management of Zika in the state. It is to be noted that a fifty-year-old lady was found positive with the Zika virus in Belsar village in Pune's Purandar tehsil. As per the statement by the doctors, the infection in the patient is mild and no other family member has developed any of the symptoms.
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