kolkata four days after asking private hospitals to set up swine flu isolation wards the government is still waiting for them to act rather than compelling them to do so with the quarantine wards at id hospital and mr bangur hospital almost packed to capacity patients are being told to take their medication at homealthough home quarantine has the whos approval there is no contingency plan for a sudden spurt in h1n1 cases or critically ill patients we are still waiting for a response from the private hospitals they have been asked to let us know by the middle of next week said tapas sen nodal officer for swine flu on mondaydoctors fear the delay could lead to more people being infected several private hospitals should have been roped in by now as was been done in pune and mumbai this delay is inexplicable and inexcusable said debashish basu tropical medicine expert niced too is overburdened because the government did not specify prioritized screening of suspects as it finally did on monday only 6 of 140 samples a day test positive say sources the health department issued a fresh set of guidelines to identify the most likely candidates for a swab test from now on those aged below five years and above 65 years will be given preference so will pregnant women cardiac patients and those with complaints of breathlessness said sen several patients families allege that they got reports two days after the test was conducted i got my daughters swab test done on august 15 but the report is yet to come i have been calling up the hospital but they are not even picking up the phone said a man from lake gardens calls to cellphone helpline went unanswered i got through after trying for nearly six hours but the doctor who took the call asked me to call the swasthya bhavan instead said sandip chatterjee whose daughter tested positive on sunday