Gujarat: H1N1 Pandemic 2009-2010; 486 confirmed fatalities

[Ronan Kelly]

Woman dies of swine flu, toll reaches 10 in Gujrat

Woman dies of swine flu, toll reaches 10 in Gujrat
PTI 4 September 2009, 09:00pm IST

AHMEDABAD: Swine flu on Friday claimed the life of a 34-year-old woman, who died at a private hospital here, taking the death toll to 10 in the
state, while three fresh cases were reported, a top health official said.

"Today morning, Rasilaben Paldia, who had tested positive for H1N1 virus, died due to cardio respiratory arrest at the Sterling Hospital," the official said.

Rasilaben had complained of cough with pain in chest on August 24, and the very next day she developed breathlessness with difficulty in speaking, they said.

Rasilaben, who had a known case of psychiatric illness, went to Sanjivani Hospital in Surat and was admitted on the same day, health officials said.

Later, she was shifted to Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad on August 29 with ventilator support and died on Friday morning, they added.

According to the officials, three new cases were reported from the city. So far, 125 people have tested positive, including the 10 deaths in the state.

Out of the three positive patients, two are women -- aged 57 and 27, while third one is a male aged around 24 years, officials said.

Around 23 people confirmed or suspected are admitted in various hospitals of the state, they said.

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[B.C.]

Swine flu claims 10th victim in Gujarat

Swine flu claims 10th victim in Gujarat

Saturday , Sep 05, 2009 at 0428 hrs Ahmedabad:

The swine flu death toll in Gujarat reached 10 after a woman died at a city hospital on Friday. The state has recorded four H1N1 deaths in the last seven days.

Health department sources said Rasilaben Paldiya (34) died at 10.30 am due to cardio respiratory arrest caused by the H1N1 virus with bilateral pneumonia. ?The patient had developed severe pneumonic patches on the lungs, which resulted into severe sepsis and multi-lung failure,? officials added.

Paldiya was admitted to a private hospital in Ahmedabad on August 29 after complaining of breathlessness, chest pain and difficulty in speaking. Her family members said that Paldiya had visited her native village a week ago, following which she was admitted to the Sanjivani Hospital in Surat on August 24. Doctors said she was suffering from cough and expectoration with chest pain. She was kept on ventilator support for seven days.

The doctors added that the patient also had some psychiatric illness.

As her condition deteriorated, she was shifted to Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad, where she was given Tamiflu tablet.

The municipal health department has, meanwhile, identified close contacts of the patient and started their treatment.

Earlier this week, Vaishali Kalal, who was seven-month pregnant, died of swine flu. Dinesh Aghera from Ahmedabad became the eighth victim followed by 23-year-old Bhavya Dave.

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[Ronan Kelly]

Swine flu death toll rises, 30-year-old woman dies in city (Ahmedabad)

Swine flu death toll rises, 30-year-old woman dies in city
TNN 6 September 2009, 01:23am IST


AHMEDABAD: Thirty-year-old Amba Desai, resident of Parshotamnagar Rabarivas in Ghatlodia, died of swine flu on Saturday afternoon creating a panic
situation in the area.

She is the 11th person in the state to succumb to the H1N1 virus. In last one week two persons have succumbed to the deadly virus in the state. Gujarat is third in the number of swine flu deaths in the country.

Principal health secretary Ravi Saxena said, "This death indicates a shift in the spread of H1N1 virus, as the deceased was the first from a lower income group.
"Generally, the immunity level among the poorer section of society is pretty low which may have aggravated her health conditions," added Saxena.

Desai was admitted at Civil Hospital on September 4 in a critical condition. Earlier, she had visited a local doctor in Ghatlodia with high fever.

After the death, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) started a health drive and identified six persons in the locality who were in touch with Desai.

A senior AMC official said, "We have started contact treatment for six of the family members and surveying the locality." However AMC authorities are puzzled about her contracting the virus.

Meanwhile, a 27-year-old woman from Silvassa is in a critical state after she developed complications due to swine flu at VS Hospital. Shalini Pandey was admitted to Rajasthan Hospital on Thursday after she complained of cold and severe cough.

Hospital authorities sent her blood sample and throat swabs to Civil Hospital, which tested positive. She was then transferred to VS Hospital. AMC authorities said they have started contact treatment for other three family members who are in touch with the woman. Meanwhile, attending doctors said that the woman was in a critical state.

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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Swine flu death toll rises, 30-year-old woman dies in city (Ahmedabad)

3 more test +ve for swine flu in city
TNN 7 September 2009, 01:27am IST

AHMEDABAD: Three more persons tested positive for swine flu on Sunday evening in the city. They have been admitted to Civil Hospital's isolation
ward.


According to state health officials, the new patients are a 30-year-old woman, and two men, one of whom is 23 years old man and another is 53 years old.


The growing number of swine flu cases has also put Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) authorities on tenterhooks ahead of Navratri festivities. The death of 30-year-old Amba Desai, a resident of Parshotamnagar Rabarivas in Ghatlodia, who died of swine flu on Saturday afternoon, has also worried authorities of the virus gaining ground in lower-middle class and cluttered dwellings.


Desai was the 11th person in the state to succumb to the H1N1 virus. In the last one week, two persons have succumbed to the deadly virus in the state. Gujarat is third in the number of swine flu deaths in the country.

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[Ronan Kelly]

Two more die of swine flu in state (Gujarat 14)

Three more die of swine flu in state
8 September 2009, 10:33pm IST


AHMEDABAD/VADODARA/SURAT/Rajkot: Tuesday witnessed three more deaths in the state due to swine flu. Maya Gopal Agarwal, 23, died at New Civil
Hospital (NCH) in Surat. Umreth resident Rajesh Manhar Raval, 40, died in the isolation ward of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital whereas Ashok Sejpal breathed his last in the isolation ward of Rajkot Civil Hospital.

On Tuesday, the number of positive cases reached 134 while the number of confirmed H1N1 deaths 14.

Agarwal, a resident of Palanpur Patia area in the city, was admitted to NCH with respiratory problems. She died on Sunday and her swine flu report came after her death on Monday.

Raval was admitted on Monday and had tested positive for Influenza A.

Sejpal had difficulty in breathing and was taking medicine for TB and was diagnosed with dengue as well. "There was blood in his cough so we suspected swine flu. He was admitted in the isolation ward. We collected his samples and sent it to Ahmedabad for swine flue report,'' hospital officials said. Sejpal is survived by his teacher wife Bharti and son Jaydeep.

In Surat, health officials said that Agarwal had started showing swine flu symptoms from Wednesday and was initially treated at a private hospital. He was shifted to NCH on Saturday as her condition deteriorated and she was put on ventilator.

"She was given medication for swine flu and her blood samples were sent for swine flu test," said Hemant Desai, health officer at Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).

According to Desai, Agarwal had no history of visiting pandemic area in India or abroad. "No one from abroad visited her since the outbreak. She was handicapped since many years as she was operated upon for backbone tuberculosis," added Desai.

Raval's doctor said that he had a history of breathlessness. "He also had dry cough as he was suffering from allergic bronchitis," epidemic medical officer Dr Harshad Sharma, who personally visited Raval's family staying in Umreth city's Ravaliya Vaas area, informed TOI.

"The patient was a painting labourer and had no contact with any NRI or foreigner. At the same time, since last week, the patient was resting at his home."

Health officials added that Raval, who was staying in a joint family, had not gone on any assignment since a week. "We have checked health of 12 of his immediate family members and none of them has any symptoms of being infected with H1N1. However, as part of precautionary measure, we have provided the family members medical guidance," added Sharma.

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The 23 yo has been reported in other posts, the two men are new.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Two more die of swine flu in state (Gujarat 14)

3 more die of swine flu in Gujarat

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Ahmedabad, Sept 8 (PTI) Swine flu claimed three more lives in Gujarat, taking the statewide toll to 14, even as two more persons were tested positive for the viral infection today.

According to officials of the state health department, one Rajubhai Raval died at the civil hospital here yesterday.

Earlier he was admitted to private hospitals in Anand and Ahmedabad.

At Rajkot, 52-year-old Ashok Chaudhary died of swine at a government hospital. He was admitted to the hospital on September 5 after he showed symptoms of swine flu.

23-year-old Mayaben Gopal Agrawal died of H1N1 infection at civil hospital in Surat yesterday.

Meanwhile, two persons in Surat tested positive for swine flu today. With this, 134 persons have been tested positive for H1N1 virus in the state.

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[Tonka]

Three more die of swine flu in state

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Three more die of swine flu in state
8 September 2009, 10:33pm ISTTimes of India
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AHMEDABAD/VADODARA/SURAT/Rajkot: Tuesday witnessed three more deaths in the state due to swine flu. Maya Gopal Agarwal, 23, died at New Civil
Hospital (NCH) in Surat. Umreth resident Rajesh Manhar Raval, 40, died in the isolation ward of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital whereas Ashok Sejpal breathed his last in the isolation ward of Rajkot Civil Hospital.

On Tuesday, the number of positive cases reached 134 while the number of confirmed H1N1 deaths 14.

Agarwal, a resident of Palanpur Patia area in the city, was admitted to NCH with respiratory problems. She died on Sunday and her swine flu report came after her death on Monday.

Raval was admitted on Monday and had tested positive for Influenza A.

Sejpal had difficulty in breathing and was taking medicine for TB and was diagnosed with dengue as well. "There was blood in his cough so we suspected swine flu. He was admitted in the isolation ward. We collected his samples and sent it to Ahmedabad for swine flue report,'' hospital officials said. Sejpal is survived by his teacher wife Bharti and son Jaydeep.

In Surat, health officials said that Agarwal had started showing swine flu symptoms from Wednesday and was initially treated at a private hospital. He was shifted to NCH on Saturday as her condition deteriorated and she was put on ventilator.

"She was given medication for swine flu and her blood samples were sent for swine flu test," said Hemant Desai, health officer at Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).

According to Desai, Agarwal had no history of visiting pandemic area in India or abroad. "No one from abroad visited her since the outbreak. She was handicapped since many years as she was operated upon for backbone tuberculosis," added Desai.

Raval's doctor said that he had a history of breathlessness. "He also had dry cough as he was suffering from allergic bronchitis," epidemic medical officer Dr Harshad Sharma, who personally visited Raval's family staying in Umreth city's Ravaliya Vaas area, informed TOI.

"The patient was a painting labourer and had no contact with any NRI or foreigner. At the same time, since last week, the patient was resting at his home."

Health officials added that Raval, who was staying in a joint family, had not gone on any assignment since a week. "We have checked health of 12 of his immediate family members and none of them has any symptoms of being infected with H1N1. However, as part of precautionary measure, we have provided the family members medical guidance," added Sharma.

[Ronan Kelly]

Toll reaches 47 (Gujarat)

Woman dies of swine flu in Surat, toll reaches 15
TNN 10 September 2009, 02:46am IST


AHMEDABAD: Seema Rambahadur Gupta, 24, died due to swine flu infection on Wednesday afternoon at New Civil Hospital (NCH), Surat. With Gupta's
death, the number of fatalities has climbed to 15. Gupta, wife of a labourer, was admitted to NCH on Saturday after she complained of sore throat and breathlessness. She was residing near Kim Crossroads in Surat and was taken to a private hospital for preliminary checkup from where she was referred to NCH, informed district health officials.

"Medical report showing her swine flu positive status was declared late on Tuesday evening. She was on medication since her admission in the isolation ward at NCH. Gupta had no history of visiting any areas where the pandemic had been reported from earlier," said Surat district health officer Vijay Kumar Gupta.

In Ahmedabad, two cases tested positive, including a doctor working with Civil Hospital. Meanwhile, the sudden spate of deaths, especially from the lower-income groups has the government machinery concerned that H1N1 virus has now become a localized infection. "It has got embedded in the community and there are strong chances that the infection will surge, making it tough to tackle the virus," said senior officials.

They added that a decision has been taken in a meeting to review the H1N1 deaths to intensify community awareness efforts for preventing transmission as much as possible. "Each garba organizer will be directed to have a stall at the venue with a team of doctors to screen patients and spread awareness. They will be asked to send suspected cases to public hospital OPDs," said a senior official. The screening can be voluntary or visual where a person showing symptoms may be asked to get a checkup done, officials said.

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[Ronan Kelly]

One suspected H1N1 patient dies in Rajkot

One suspected H1N1 patient dies in Rajkot
10 September 2009, 10:47pm IST


AHMEDABAD/ RAJKOT/VADODARA: The deadly H1N1 continued its death scare as one more suspected swine flu patient, 22-year-old Kanji Maganbhai died in
Rajkot Civil Hospital on Wednesday evening. A 34-year-old man, who tested H1N1 positive, was reported critical at SSG Hospital in Vadodara. On Thursday, total positive cases reached 143.

Kanji, a migrant agricultural labourer was admitted to Civil Hospital and treated in the isolation ward, but he succumbed soon. Doctors suspected H1N1 virus and had taken his sample and sent it for laboratory test. But he died before his reports came.

Kanji belonged to Godhra in Panchmahal district and had come to Kothapipaliya village in Rajkot district. His last rites were performed in Rajkot only. Earlier, on Tuesday, a primary school principal in Amreli district had died of H1N1.

Meanwhile, Morbi-based industrialist DC Patel, an H1N1 positive patient was discharged from the Wockhardt Hospital here after battling with the virus for over 23 days.

He was admitted in a critical condition and hospital authorities said that he was put on ventilator for 15 days. He also had neuron complications. Wockhardt is approved by the state health authorities to treat H1N1 patients in Saurashtra and Kutch. "Patel's discharge holds hope that complicated cases of swine flu can be cured," Deepak Venugopalan, state head of the hospital, said.

In Vadodara, a 34-year-old patient, who was admitted to SSG with severe breathlessness, has tested positive for H1N1. His condition is critical, attending doctors said.

In Ahmedabad, two more people were tested positive. One is a resident of Kaligam while another is a 53-year-old doctor in Bopal who had come in contact with a positive doctor in Civil Hospital. "So far, over eight-nine doctors and medical staff of Civil Hospital have tested positive for swine flu," said health officials.

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[Chuck]

Students asked to stay home after Amreli school principal dies of flu

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Students asked to stay home after Amreli school principal dies of flu

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Posted: Sep 11, 2009 at 0058 hrs IST

Junagadh A Day after the principal of Ingorala Government Primary School in Amreli died of swine flu, health officials asked 40 students of the school to stay home for a week as they complained of cough and fever on Wednesday.

District primary education officials said that after the death of principal Ashok Sejpal on Tuesday, a team of doctors visited the school in Babara taluka. During their check up drive, which involved all 309 students and the teaching staff, they found 40 students suffering from cough and fever.

?Following this, the officials advised the school administration to sanction seven-day leave to those students. This has been done as a precautionary measure,? said Amreli primary education officer Prakash Trivedi.

One of the health officials said, ?I have personally met the students and nothing serious has been noticed? they have
been asked to stay at home just as a preventive move.?

?The principal was not taking classes, so it is believed he had not come into contact with the students. Health officials will, however, submit a report if anything serious surfaces,? added the official.

According to sources, Sejpal had last visited the school on Saturday? the day he was admitted to a local hospital before being shifted to Rajkot.

Meanwhile, the officials held a meeting with the students, parents and villagers on Wednesday, wherein they were briefed about swine flu symptoms and how to deal with it.

[Chuck]

Swine flu: one more woman dies

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Swine flu: one more woman dies

Express News Service
Posted: Sep 11, 2009 at 0118 hrs IST

Surat One more person in Surat died of swine flu on Wednesday. Seema Bahadur Gupta (28), a resident of Sanidhya township in Surat district, had been suffering from cold and cough for the last few days. She died at the New Civil Hospital of Surat.

Her swab samples, which were sent to the B J Medical College, Ahmedabad for testing, confirmed her as H1N1 positive on Wednesday evening.

Seema was initially taken to a private hospital in Kim by her relatives, and later, as suggested by Primary Healthcare Centre officials, she was shifted to the NCH on Tuesday.

The victim?s family members, including her husband Rambahadur Gupta and two children, have been quarantined, said sources.

The family has reportedly migrated from Uttar Pradesh.

District Health Officer Dr V K Gupta said, ?We tried our best to save her but she came when her condition was acute.?

Hospital sources said blood samples of one more suspected patient has been sent to the B J Medical College, Ahmedabad. According to NCH officials, the hospital has recorded 165 suspected swine flu cases in the last few weeks, of which 24 had turned out to be positive.

A doctors? team from the B J Medical College had recently visited the microbiology department of the NCH.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: One suspected H1N1 patient dies in Rajkot

Dead H1N1 suspect in city tests negative
11 September 2009, 11:01pm IST


RAJKOT: The 22-year-old youth, who was suspected to have died of swine flu on Thursday morning, has tested negative for the virus. Doctors said he
had contracted pneumonia. Kanji Magan died in Rajkot Civil Hospital on Wednesday evening shortly after he was brought there in the morning.

Kanji, a migrant agricultural labourer, belonged to Godhra in Panchmahal district and had come to Kothapipaliya village here. Till now, two persons have died of swine flu in the city.

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[Shiloh]

Re: Toll reaches 17 (Gujarat)

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One more dies of swine flu, state death toll 17

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Posted: Sep 13, 2009 at 0150 hrs IST

Vadodara A 34-year-old man from Karjan town died of swine flu on Saturday evening taking the death toll to 17 in the state. Paresh Patel was admitted in the Sir Sayajirao General Hospital (SSGH) of Vadodara on September 9 with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).

Patel was kept on ventilator since his admission in the isolation ward of the hospital.

Health officials said his condition had been critical throughout. Dr Atul Saxena, Superintendent, SSG Hospital, said, ?He was suffering from ARDS along with pneumonia and H1N1 virus. He was also diabetic.?

The case was confirmed for swine flu on September 10, said hospital sources.

Patel who worked in Modern Petrofils is survived by his parents, his wife and a child. This is the fourth swine flu death in Vadodara since the first one was reported on August 11.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 17 (Gujarat)

The missing # 16;

Ahmedabad, Sep 13 (PTI) Twelve persons, including two children, were today tested positive for swine flu in Gujarat, state health officials said.

With this, 156 people have so far been tested positive for the H1N1 virus in the state, of which 17 died of the disease, they said.

According to the officials, nine swine flu victims, including a one-and-half year old girl, have been admitted to the New Civil Hospital in Surat.

A 10-year-old girl infected with A (H1N1) virus has been admitted to the Civil hospital in Valsad district, officials said, adding two others were under treatment in Ahmedabad.

Besides, 24 suspected flu cases are undergoing treatment at various hospitals in different cities, they said.

Yesterday, two persons -- 34-year-old Paresh Patel in Vadodara and 35-year-old Kailashben Desai at the Surat Civil Hospital -- succumbed to swine flu.

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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 17 (Gujarat)

Swine flu claims one more life in Gujarat; toll reaches 18


Published: September 14,2009


Surat , Sep 14 Swine flu claimed one more life in the city, taking the number of deaths due to the pandemic in Gujarat to 18, while no new cases of H1N1 infection were reported in the state today, officials said.

Vinod Upadhyay (40), a resident of Jalaramnagar here, died in isolation ward of Mahavir Hospital. He was admitted on September 10 with cough, soar throat and high fever, they said.

Though Upadhyay was on tamiflu tablets since his admission, he died today due to multiple organ failure, they said.

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