India's
first SARS victim in Goa
Sandesh Prabhudesai
17 April 2003
India’s first SARS case has been detected in Goa, with
Prashil Varde, 32-year old marine engineer reported positive
for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
“The patient is cured after getting treated at the Goa
Medical College”, claims chief minister Manohar Parrikar.
Varde had come down to Goa on 2 April after touring Singapore,
with mild fever. He stayed in Mumbai for four days after arriving
in India on 29 March.
According to health minister Suresh Amonkar, even his wife
has not been found infected with SARS, but has appealed to
all the people, who came in touch with him, to remain isolated
from public places as an abandoned precaution.
Though Varde did not show any other signs than mild fever,
he got himself admitted at the special SARS ward at the GMC.
His blood report sent to Institute of Virology in Pune established
him positive for the deadly disease.
A team of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases
is coming down tomorrow to examine him further.
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