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Showing posts with label Swine Flu in India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swine Flu in India. Show all posts
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Swine Flu Shuffle India With 12 Deaths In Pune Toll Increases To 19
INDIA, PUNE: An eleven-month-old boy and a 75-year-old woman died in Pune, taking the toll in Pune, severely hit by the virus, to 12 and across thecountry to 19.
The boy, Rutwik Kamle was admitted first to a private hospital and then shifted to government-run Sassoon Hospital last evening in a serious condition, official sources said. He died early on Thursday morning.
Bharti Goyal, who was suffering from the viral infection, died in KEM Hospital here, they said.
With this, the number of flu deaths here has risen to 12 and across the country to 19. Besides the Pune deaths, one person each has succumbed to the virus in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Nashik, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram and two in Mumbai.
Ten people last night tested positive for swine flu in Gujarat, taking the total number of those afflicted by the disease countrywide to 1,203.
While Pune remained the worst-hit area by the disease with 61 new cases being reported from the city, Gujarat’s 10 new cases took the number of those infected to 27 in the state.
“All test results that were pending have come and according to them, 10 more people, including three women, have tested positive for swine flu,” Gujarat principal secretary health Ravi Saxena said.
The figures include five from Ahmedabad, four from Surat and one from Navsari, Saxena said. In Navsari, a 14-year-old boy has been infected by the virus. According to the available data, a total of 125 fresh cases have been reported, taking the total number of those afflicted to 1,203.
Besides the western region, flu cases were reported from Mumbai (24), Kolkata (3), Bangalore (10), Shillong (1), Goa (1), Delhi (8) and Hyderabad (3).
In Shillong, the 17-year-old male patient had travelled to the UK.
In Bangalore, all of the 10 cases had contracted the virus in the country and had no foreign travel history. Goa also reported one indigenous case. All the eight patients in Delhi and three in Hyderabad had acquired the infection in India.
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Swine Flue Gradually Rocked India Death Toll Rises To 10
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.
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Swine Flu’s Next Victims Pune Doctor and Chennai Boy
PUNE/CHENNAI: A 35-year-old ayurvedic doctor and a four-year-old boy died of swine flu in Pune and Chennai on Monday morning, taking the toll dueSwine flu virus test Children along with their parents wait outside a hospital to get tested for H1N1 virus in Pune. (PTI)to the dreaded viral infection in the country to six.The medic, Babasahib Mane, died in the Sasoon Hospital in Pune becoming the third person in the worst-hit Maharashtra city to succumb to swine flu, a senior health official said.
Mane was ailing for sometime and blood had been found in his sputum in the last couple of days, he said.
In Chennai, a four-year-old boy, who was admitted to a private hospital with kidney and liver-related complications and had tested positive for swine flu, died on Monday, health officials said. The boy had also been suffering from asthma. This is the first case of flu death in the city.
“The boy was in a very critical condition. He had been suffering from asthma and he had been taken from one hospital to another for various complications. Ultimately he landed up in this hospital for a kidney-related problem…and they found the boy testing positive (for swine flu),” Tamil Nadu Health Secretary V K Subburaj said.
The boy, who was on a ventilator, died following “multiple organ failure,” S Ilango, Director of Public Health, said.
With the two deaths on Monday, the swine flu toll in the country has climbed to six.
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