India Pune doc, Chennai boy die; swine flu toll 7

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Pune doc, Chennai boy die; swine flu toll 6

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New Delhi: The H1N1 panic is spreading as fast as the virus across the country with another death being reported early on Monday morning.


An Ayurvedic doctor, who was working for Sassoon hospital in Pune, died of swine flu-related complications, taking the viral death toll to five in India.


Balasaheb Laxman Mane, a private practioner was brought to the hospital on August 7 with severe broncho-pneumonia after he tested positive on August 6.


Dean of Sassoon Hospital, Arun Jhamkar, told CNN-IBN that Mane was working in the slum areas of Pune and was immediately administered Tamiflu double dose at Sassoon once he tested positive. "He was put on ventilator and oxygenation was started. His lungs started responding. But haemodynamics failed after some time. We did everything possible but his heart did not respond. He died at 7:20 am today (Monday)," Jhamkar said.


The second death was reported on Monday from Chennai where a four-year-old boy suffering from H1N1 influenza died at a private city hospital

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Updated on Monday, August 10, 2009, 09:50

Zeenews Bureau

Pune/Chennai: India on Monday reported two swine flu deaths, with a 35-year-old ayurvedic doctor in Pune and a four-year-old boy in Chennai succumbing to the virus this morning.

The death toll from the fast spreading influenza A(H1N1) pandemic has now risen to six in India.

Ayurvedic doctor Babasahib Mane was admitted to Pune?s Sassoon General Hospital five days ago and had been on the ventilator since the last three days. He died at 7:15 am today, Maharashtra's swine flu control room head Pradip Awate said.

The four-year-old boy is Tamil Nadu?s first victim from swine flu. He was also suffering from asthma and multiple organ failure.


Pune schoolgirl Reeda Shaikh had died on August 3, becoming India's first swine flu victim. Sanjay Kokare, a school teacher, died in Sassoon Hospital in Pune after midnight on Saturday.

The other two swine flu victims were Pravin Patel, an NRI who died at the civil hospital in Gujarat's main city Ahmedabad early Sunday, and Fahmida Panwala, who succumbed to the virus late Saturday in Mumbai's Kasturba Hospital.

On Sunday, three people continued to be in a critical condition and 82 fresh cases were reported, taking the total number of people infected by the virus to 864, the Union Health Ministry said.

Authorities in Maharashtra and Gujarat - which account for the five deaths - were on high alert.

As Pune has become the epidemic city, a central team has been stationed there to assess the situation and institute appropriate public health measures.

The virus? spread and rising toll forced Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's office on Sunday to start monitoring the situation.

PM Singh told Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad that a panel of doctors be formed to provide the people "correct information" regarding swine flu.

According to an official in the PMO, Dr Singh said the panel should also provide proper information to the media.

?Insensitive remarks?

Even as the authorities battled swine flu, an ugly row erupted after Azad said that swine flu was contagious and those who had fallen victim to it could have passed on the virus to others.

His remarks that 14-year-old Pune schoolgirl Reeda Shaikh could have spread the virus to 80 other people by visiting more than one hospital triggered an angry response from her grieving family.

"One small girl went from one hospital to another, then a third hospital to get treatment and then a fourth, without awareness. In the process some 80 people were infected. This girl ... transmitted the virus in the course of seeking treatment," the minister said in New Delhi. http://www.zeenews.com/news554143.html

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Boy dies of swine flu, brother tests positive

STAFF WRITER 17:25 HRS IST

Chennai, Aug 10 (PTI) In the first swine flu fatality in Tamil Nadu, a four-and-a-half-year-old boy died of the H1N1 virus while his 11-year-old brother tested positive for the infection, prompting health officials to start screening their neighbours.

Apprehending spread of the virus, schools in the vicinity declared a holiday for about a week even as 52 people have tested positive in the state so far.

Sanjay B, who was hospitalised on August 7 in a critical condition and tested positive, died this morning, following multiple organ failure, hospital sources said. He was on ventilator support.

The boy's blood pressure and pulse started to deteriorate "drastically" and he succumbed to the disease, said Dr N Prahalad, who attended on him at Mehta Hospital.

Health Secretary V K Subbaraj told PTI that 40 of 52 confirmed cases reported have been treated and discharged and the rest were undergoing treatment.

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Source: http://www.sindhtoday.net/news/1/39979.htm

Swine flu death toll reaches 7
August 10th, 2009 SindhToday

Pune, Aug 10 (ANI): A 35-year-old chemist Sanjay Tilekar died of swine flu on Monday at the Sasoon Hospital in Pune, registering the seventh death by H1N1 virus in the country.

Earlier in the day, a 35-year-old ayurvedic doctor and a four-year-old boy died of swine flu in Pune and Chennai.

Taking preventive measures to tackle the deadly virus, Government of Maharashtra on Monday ordered the closure of all educational institutions for the next one week in Pune and also in the industrial townships on the outskirts of the city, where swine flu has claimed five lives so far.

This was stated by Ajit Pawar, District Guardian Minister overseeing Pune region at a press conference here on Monday.

?From today till August 17, all colleges, high schools, primary schools should be closed, all private classes should be stopped in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. All children are advised to stay indoors,? said Pawar.

Besides schools and colleges, the Government has also ordered the closure of all the theatres for the next three days.
He also informed that three swine flu patients in Pune were critical.

?Out of the four positive cases (in Sassoon Hospital) three are critical. We have been giving them appropriate treatment,? Pawar added. (ANI)

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