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NEW DELHI: A seven-year-old girl in Vadodara in Gujarat and a 63-year-old woman in Maharashtra died of the swine flu virus on Tuesday Swine flu test afternoon.
The deceased identified as Sayeeda Dorjeewala from Mumbra, in neighbouring Thane district, was admitted in Noor hospital in Mumbai on August 6.
She had tested positive for H1N1 and was also suffering from some other complications, according to the Disaster Management Cell of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.
Famida Panwala, 53, was the first casualty of swine flu in Mumbai. With Sayeeda’s death the number of fatalities in Maharashtra has risen to seven.
A seven-year-old girl also succumbed to swine flu in the government-run Sir Sayajirao Gaekwad (SSG) Hospital in Vadodara today, hospital authorities said.
With this, two persons have died due to swine flu in Gujarat.
“Seven-year-old Arya Borde, who was admitted to the SSG hospital on last Wednesday died today afternoon,” the hospital’s medical superintendent Atul Saxena said.
“She (Arya) was admitted in a critical condition. Her samples were sent to the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) in Delhi where it turned out to be positive,” he said.
Principal Secretary, Health, Ravi Saxena said,” Arya was administered Tamiflu after being admitted to SSG hospital. There was no history of foreign contact.”
“She was on ventilator support since August 7. She had no viral pneumonitis patch until August 9. The results of H1N1 was confirmed on August 8. She became critical today morning and passed away at around 12.30 hours,” Saxena said.
The first death in Gujarat due to H1N1 virus was of 43-year-old Praveen Patel, an NRI based in Atlanta, US, in the civil hospital on Sunday.
Shruti Gawde (13), who died at the Sassoon Hospital in Pune had become the eight victim of the deadly virus early on Tuesday.