Sunshine Hospitals launched Swine flu vaccine for general public

Hyderabad, 4th Aug:  Sunshine Hospitals on Tuesday launched a swine flu vaccine program for general public at an affordable price . Hospital authorities informed that the vaccine will be useful for pregnant women, diabetics, patients having chronic asthma, heart and lung diseases. “One shot of this vaccine will be enough and there is no need for any booster dose. This vaccine is not for children below the age of 18 years. The vaccine has showed very good results in United Kingdom and elsewhere,” informed consultant pulmonologist, Sunshine Hospitals, Dr. Sudheer Alapati. The potency of the swine flu vaccine will be for one-year and it has marginal side affects. “I myself was inoculated with swine flu vaccine last year. Except for a slight pain in my arm, there were no side effects. This is the vaccine available in the twin cities and high risk patients should make use of it as a preventive step,” Dr. Sudheer said. “General public are nervous about swine flu because of the deaths. Getting inoculated with the vaccine is the best way of prevention. There are no side effects and the vaccine is being offered at an affordable price,” said Managing Director and CEO of Sunshine Hospitals, Dr. A. V. Guruva Reddy. The vaccine was formally launched by film director Rajamouli, music director Keeravani, producer Gangaraju and Rama Rajamouli. The first shot of the vaccine was administered to Mr. Rajamouli too.