Raiganj, Oct. 29: The district health administration has failed to track down a single woman, although 48 hours have passed since the alert on 60 dengue-stricken trainee nurses from Calcutta’s Lady Dufferin Victoria Hospital who returned to North Dinajpur after getting infected there.

The Telegraph yesterday had spoken to one of them, Sarbani Sarkar, who is now at Collegepara here. She had come back home recently after being treated for dengue.

The district authorities had received the fax from the director of health services on Monday. The instructions were that all of them should be tracked down and those still suffering from fever be isolated. The state health department is scared as dengue patients can transmit the disease even a month after getting cured. This span is known as the infective period.

The deputy chief medical officer of health of North Dinajpur, Manikanchan Saha, said the block medical officers had been sent the instructions by special messengers yesterday.

“We had forwarded the names and addresses of the nurses and women health workers who had contracted dengue while under training at Lady Dufferin Victoria Hospital. The block officers were told to report on their condition yesterday. However, we are yet to get a single feedback,” Saha said. He said all 60 women were still within the “infective” period.

When asked why the administration had not got in contact with at least Sarkar, the medical officer said the report should come through the block officer.

The Congress councillor of Ward 13, Ronoj Das, said he had sent Sarkar’s name, but no medical team had visited her. “We are spreading awareness among the residents of the area through our ward committee,” Roy said.

The medical officer said it was not clear how many of the women had actually returned home from Calcutta. “If we do not have any information by tomorrow we will have to form teams and set out to locate them,” he said.