Public hospital reminds visitors not to bring kids

A public hospital here has recently distributed hundreds of flyers reminding visitors not to bring little children while visiting hospital wards particularly in the wake of the latest development of the H1N1 epidemic in the country.

Even without the H1N1 virus, there is a longstanding regulation that bars visitors from bringing their children aged 12 years and below to hospital wards, said a senior nursing officer of the hospital.