Former bureaucrat recalls Pune’s ‘best practices’ during 2009 Swine Flu outbreak in city

The health staff did the contact tracing thoroughly thus, bringing to light the people who came in contact with the positive patients within a few hours, says retired IAS officer Mahesh Zagade

In August 2009 when India’s first Swine flu (H1N1) death happened in the city, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) played an important role in bringing the pandemic under control.

he entire PMC staff worked very hard to handle the Swine flu outbreak. Not just the health department, but rest all departments including the engineering division worked round the clock during H1N1 pandemic, says Retired IAS officer Mahesh Zagade. (HT PHOTO)

Retired IAS officer Mahesh Zagade, who was then the Pune municipal commissioner and in the forefront of the efforts to control the pandemic recalled the various measures that were adopted to bring the spread under control.