Modi government is gearing up to fight Hepatitis-B outbreak which has claimed 37 lives according to official number. However the State Congress spokesman and the former leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, Arjun Modhvadia, claimed that the epidemic has taken life of not less than 60 people in Modasa alone.

Government has planned to vaccinate all people in Modasa in 62 booths by 2000 health department employees. Government has also ordered all the hotels and restaurants in Modasa town in Sabarkantha district in north Gujarat to be closed. Various team of experts visited the affected area.

Doctors in the area are protesting for the release of Dr Govind Patel -- the owner of a private hospital in Modassa who was arrested for re-using disposable syringes. Officials found that most of the patients who died in the current epidemic were initially treated in his clinic.