Dr. Senendra Raj Uprety, director of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, left for Tatopani to set up the helpdesk.
This will be fifth such helpdesk on Nepal´s border. The earlier four being at Rani, Sunauli, Birgunj and Nepalgunj.
The initiative was taken after the flu was detected in five individuals in Kathmandu.
Meanwhile, Dr Jitendra Man Shrestha, deputy director of the Avian Influenza Control Project, said that the sixth suspected case has not been confirmed yet.
A passenger on Kathmandu-New Delhi flight was suspected of having the flu on Thursday. "The report will only come on Saturday, so we cannot confirm it today," Dr Shrestha told myrepublica.
"Since World Health Organization has called it pandemic, we have to remain alert on this," he said adding that the government would make strategy according to severity of the disease in Nepal.
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