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Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma. Subramanian, connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026), urged the nationalist to stay cautious and warned against depletion of undercooked poultry pursuing reports of crow deaths successful parts of Chennai including Adyar. The Public Health Department is connected precocious alert aft advisories issued by the Union authorities connected avian influenza.
Addressing the media astatine the Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Specialty Hospital successful Chennai, Mr. Subramanian advised radical to debar consuming half-boiled eggs oregon undercooked chickenhearted and to guarantee poultry products are cooked thoroughly astatine precocious temperatures. Poultry recovered dormant owed to unwellness should not beryllium consumed and indispensable beryllium buried heavy underground instantly to forestall the dispersed of infection.
District-level wellness officials had been instructed to intimately show antithetic vertebrate deaths. While surveillance had been intensified crossed the State, Mr. Subramanian said determination was no grounds truthful acold of quality transmission. “There is nary request for panic, but radical indispensable stay vigilant and travel wellness advisories,” helium said, adding the Chief Secretary had besides held a high-level reappraisal gathering with officials to measure preparedness.
More Cath Labs
The Minister inaugurated a caller cardiac catheterisation laboratory (Cath Lab) astatine the Omandurar Hospital, acceptable up astatine a outgo of astir ₹8 crore, bringing the full fig of Cath Labs commissioned since the contiguous authorities assumed bureau to seven.
As portion of decentralising cardiac care, Mr. Subramanian said 5 much Cath Labs would beryllium established soon successful authorities hospitals successful Cuddalore, the Nilgiris, Tiruvallur, Tiruvannamalai and Ramanathapuram.
Providing an update connected the Madurai AIIMS, the Minister said operation had been delayed earlier owed to pending indebtedness disbursal from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Following the Chief Minister’s intervention, helium and elder officials travelled to Japan and held discussions with JICA authorities, aft which funds were released and operation resumed.
