He said there is urgent need to send specialized team of doctors to check sex workers and their kids who are suffering from fever and showing swine flu-like symptoms. There are tens of thousands of sex workers in the country.

Bhola said they have also requested the Delhi government to send a team of doctors to the red light area in the capital as many children of sex workers there are suffering from fever and may have contracted the disease.

Swine flu has so far infected 960 people in the country while 10 have succumbed to the infection.