: Migrant labourers from Ganjam district of Odisha have started to return home from Gujarat for Holi and Chaitra festivities bringing in the possible threat of swine flu to remote rural pockets.
On Sunday, the fourth swine flu death in Odisha occurred in a private hospital in Bhubaneswar.
Gujarat is one of the most swine flu prone States in the country.
Around five lakh migrant labourers of Ganjam district work in Gujarat.
In Gujarat these migrant labourers live in slums in extreme unhygienic conditions, which increases their chances of getting infected by swine flu, said Brundaban Panda, secretary of Govind Pradhan Smruti Sansad (GPSS), a social organization working with migrant labourers.
