Jammu Health Services Director Baljeet Pathania said, "Six patients have been tested positive of swine flu, whereas 21 reports are still awaited. Two patients were tested positive tomorrow and they were sent home as the cases were not severe."
Doctors at GMCH, meanwhile, alleged that the authorities were putting them under risk not supplying adequate protection gear and medicines to deal with the virus.
He said there was shortage of masks and tamiflu tablets. Other hospitals in Jammu also have not received the same from the health authorities.
"While the administration at the super specialty hospital (GMCH) refused to issue N95 masks to the hospital staff, they are still waiting for the tamiflu (oseltamavir) tablets as the same is expected to arrive by Monday evening or so," he said.
"The risk of infection to hospital staff particular doctors in OPD and emergency ward looms large. But the hospital administration has failed to implement swine flu guidelines," he said.