Pune.AUGUST.2: Concerned over the spread of Swine flu cases in the state, Maharashtra Government has decided to boost homoeopathic research on the H1N1 virus with an initial provision of Rs. 5 lakh. Announcing the fund for Dhondumama Sathe Homoeopathy medical college here at a workshop on ‘Swine flu and homoeopathy’, state health minister Dr Shobha Bachhav, who reviewed the anti-Swine flu measures over the weekend, said the research project would be first of its kind to find an effective alternative medical treatment for the infection which has become a global pandemic.

     Pune has registered over 90 positive cases of Swine flu, mostly school children, during the last three weeks which account for the largest share of the over 110 reported from various parts of Maharashtra.