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Fatalities in Chandigarh, 59 total 8 from UT, 26 Punjab, 13 Haryana, 7 Himachal, 1 UP, 4 unk.

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Chandigarh, Dec 10 (IANS) The fear of swine flu has pressed the panic button in this union territory. With the advent of winter, there has been a sudden surge in the number of positive cases of the influenza A (H1N1) virus reported in city hospitals.
Till Oct 31, only 57 positive cases were reported here but during the next 40 days, up to Dec 10, Chandigarh got 139 new confirmed cases, raising the number of positive cases to 196.

At least 25 casualties have been reported in this region.

?We have screened 617 suspected cases of swine flu and 196 of them tested positive. Out of these, 111 belonged to Chandigarh while remaining cases are from Punjab and Haryana,? a health official said Thursday.

?FIftysix cases were reported from different schools (49 alone from private schools) whereas over 30 were doctors working in leading hospitals of Chandigarh,? he added.
In the last three days, seven deaths due to swine flu and at least 15 new cases have been reported in city hospitals.

A testing facility is available here at the virology department of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), which is also catering to the needs of neighbouring states like Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

Isolation ward facilities are available here at PGIMER and at government hospitals in Sector-16 and at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Sector 32.

?Our health department is fully equipped with all the necessary equipment like face masks, anti viral drugs (Tamiflu) and laboratory facilities for preventing and controlling swine flu cases. There is no need to panic and we are capable of handling any kind of emergency situation,? H.C. Gera, UT nodal officer for swine flu, told IANS Thursday.



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Source: http://www.india-server.com/news/chandigarh-reports-two-more-swine-flu-17740.html

My comment - Does this mean that there are 25 deaths in Chandigarh?

Chandigarh Reports Two More Swine Flu Deaths
Last Updated: 2009-12-12

Two more swine flu death cases are reported today from Chandigarh. The victims who succumbed to this disease are a two-month-old baby boy, Harshit and a 45-year-old woman, Kamlesh. Harshit belong to the neighboring Mohali town and Kamlesh hails from the Panchkula town in Haryana.

Kamlesh was earlier admitted to a Panchkula hospital and was then shifted to the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh. Health officials of the respective areas have asked to provide quarantine people to all those people who have been in contact with the succumbed victims.

Till now, about 210 people have been tested positive for the H1N1 virus in Chandigarh hospitals. Over 25 people have already died of this deadly disease.

As the temperature dips, the health officials are growing more concerned about the spread of the virus. In the last one week there have been 10 deaths and 25 new positive cases in the Chandigarh city.

G.C.Bansal, officiating nodal officer for swine flu in Chandigarh said, "With a decline in mercury levels, people are becoming more prone to swine flu. However, there is no need to panic
 
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JimO - Chandigarh is the last port of call for patients from the neighboring states of Punjab and Haryana as well as residents of Chandigarh Union Territory itself. The fatalities happen in Chandigarh, but get counted in the State of residence. As of Dec 12, the Official Chandigarh tally is 4, Punjab 7, Haryana 11, (total 22) with several more fatalities reported, but still waiting to be added to the National tally.
 
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Unrelenting flu: One dead, 16 test positive
TNN 14 December 2009, 05:24am ISTText Size:|Topics:H1N1
GMCH

CHANDIGARH: As the wave of H1N1 influenza peaks, the Tricity too finds itself caught in the middle of the pandemic that shows no signs of abating.

The latest to fall victim to swine flu is a 65-year-old man from Dadumajra. Besides him, 16 persons tested positive for H1N1.

The fifth to die of the influenza in Chandigarh, Babu Ram was admitted in GMCH-32 in a critical condition on Saturday. Doctors say Babu Ram was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and was put on ventilator support. He died on Sunday morning.
COPD refers to chronic bronchitis and emphysema, a pair of two commonly co-existing diseases of the lungs in which the airways narrow, leading to limited flow of air to and from lungs, causing shortness of breath. In the past few months, 27 flu deaths have been reported in Chandigarh, of which five have been city residents. With the numbers mounting, 236 persons have been found to be carrying the flu in Chandigarh. These include 57 local students. The latest H1N1 patients include a doctor from department of community medicine at GMCH-32, a four-year-old boy from Sector 43, two siblings, a 54-year-old woman from Sector 9 and a 50-year-old from Railway Colony.
Two persons from Haryana and four from Panjab who were admitted at city hospitals also tested positive for swine flu. Besides these, four positive cases were reported from Mohali. These include a Derabassi resident, a four-year-old who has been admitted in civil hospital, a resident of Dashmesh Nagar and a 28-year-old woman, who?s being treated at Fortis Hospital.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...dead-16-test-positive/articleshow/5334858.cms
 
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More docs to treat H1N1 patients
TNN 20 December 2009, 05:05am IST
CHANDIGARH: With the number of swine flu cases going up in the city, a UT health department technical committee on Saturday declared that the infection now fell under the category of community spread, according to central government guidelines.

The panel decided to increase the doctors authorized to prescribe tamiflu. For this, Indian Medical Association has been asked to submit the names of 10 doctors who could be extended the authorization.
This was decided during a review meeting convened by UT home-cum-health secretary Ram Niwas on Saturday with members of the expert committee.

In the wake of falling temperatures and increase in the number of cases, the health secretary asked PGI and GMCH-32 to enhance their capacity for tertiary care. To cope with the increasing number of H1N1 cases, it was also decided that the possibility to rope in Command Hospital, Chandimandir, would be explored.
The officer said with a number of patients trickling in from the region, the Haryana chief secretary, health, had been asked to develop ICU facilities at Rohtak, Agroha and Mullana.

Taking a serious note of reports that some private laboratories had collected samples from suspected H1N1 carriers, and sent them to Delhi, the health secretary warned against this practice.

Out of 32 swine flu deaths reported in city hospitals so far, 15 persons belonged to Punjab, 10 were from Haryana and five were residents of Chandigarh. As many as 270 persons have tested positive for H1N1 so far. Of these, 70 belong to Punjab, 63 are from Haryana and the remaining 133 are from Chandigarh.

Two more swine flu deaths were reported from Chandigarh hospitals on Saturday. The patients are Sham Sunder Gupta, 26, from Baddi in Himachal Pradesh and Praveen Kumari, 32, from Zirakpur, Punjab. Both died in PGI on Friday night. One positive case from Ambala, a 25-year-old man, was also reported. Four samples were also collected.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...o-treat-H1N1-patients/articleshow/5357321.cms
 
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H1N1 claims four more lives

STAFF WRITER 20:18 HRS IST
Chandigarh, Dec 21 (PTI) Four more people, including two women, succumbed to the swine flu in Punjab and Haryana taking the number of fatalities from H1N1 virus in the region to 38.

Three, one of them a woman, died in the Union Territory of Chandigarh and one in Amritsar, the first flu death in the holy city.

Narinder Pathania, a bank employee, Santoshi Rani, a resident of Sirmour in HP, and Manohar Lal, hailing from Haryana's Yamunanagar district, all hospitalised here, died of illness, swine flu nodal officer H C Gera said.

Five more, who tested positive, were hospitalised in the city taking the number of those contracting the virus to 282 in the region, he said.

Sarbjit Kaur, a resident of Chabba village in Amritsar, succumbed to the swine flu in a private hospital, an official said.
http://ptinews.com/news/434493_H1N1-claims-four-more-lives
 
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4 more die of swine flu
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 23
Four more persons succumbed to swine flu here today, raising the death toll to 41. The number of H1N1 patients has risen to 293, with new cases being reported during the day. Of these, two patients are from Chandigarh, three from Haryana and one from HP.

The global pandemic continues to spread in the city and surrounding areas. Deaths were reported from Panchkula, Nabha, Nahan and Pinjore. The deceased have been identified as 22-year-old Manju from Pinjore, Rani (38) from Nahan, Priya (17) from Nabha and Shivkant (28) from Panchkula.

So far, the maximum number of 17 deaths have been reported from Punjab. Haryana comes second with 13 deaths. HC Gera, nodal officer for swine flu, said with the fall in temperature, the rate of viral infection increased.

A doctor at the PGI said the weather was favourable for the spread of infections and swine flu cases would increase. Students and office goers are at a higher risk of contracting the infection.

How to be safe

Use disposable tissues and cover the mouth and nose while coughing and sneezing. Dispose of the tissue carefully.
There is always some virus on tabletops, telephones and computers. Try not to touch eyes, nose and mouth frequently.
Washing and sanitising hands frequently is a very effective way of staying away from the infection. Alcohol-based gel or foam hand sanitisers are efficient in killing the virus.
There is no restriction on food and drinks as swine flu is not a food-borne disease. It is transmitted by air-borne droplets from an infected person?s sneeze or cough, or from germs on hands, or germ-laden surfaces.
Wearing a well-fitted mask in public places is advisable. But only a mask can?t save you from the disease.
Drink loads of water and get enough sleep. Sleep deprivation is an unhealthy habit and could affect the immune system.
Stay at least 3 ft away from people with respiratory infection.
If you already have it

Confine yourself to a room and wear a mask.
Keep yourself away from public places to avoid spreading the infection to others.
Swine flu is most contagious in the initial five days. In the case of children, it can be contagious up to 10 days.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20091224/cth1.htm#5
 
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Swine flu kills one in the city, toll rises to 41

STAFF WRITER 21:24 HRS IST
Chandigarh, Dec 24 (PTI) Swine flu today claimed the life of a person in the city, taking the pandemic toll in the region to 41.

Asha Devi of Himachal Pradesh succumbed to the virus in a city hospital, a health official here said.

Meanwhile, six more positive swine flu cases were registered here taking the number of such patients to 305.

Two girls, one aged two and a half years and the other in her teens, died of swine flu yesterday in Faridkot district of Punjab which has reported a total of 26 deaths so far due to the deadly disease.

Five positive cases were also registered in Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Bathinda taking the total number of such patients to 157 in Punjab.
http://ptinews.com/news/439743_Swine-flu-kills-one-in-the-city--toll-rises-to-41
 
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Woman dies of swine flu at PGI
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 24
One more person died of swine flu here today and two new cases each were reported from the city and Punjab and one each from Haryana and Himachal.

?A middle-aged woman, Aasha Devi, had been admitted to the PGI for some time and died this morning,? HC Gera, nodal officer for swine flu. Those who tested positive include a 24-year-old doctor from the internal medicine department at the PGI.

So far, 42 persons have died of swine flu in city hospitals, including six from Chandigarh, 17 from Punjab and 13 from Haryana while over 299 persons have tested positive.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20091225/cth1.htm#7
 
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Six swine flu deaths in Chandigarh
December 27th, 2009 - 12:03 am ICT by IANS -
Chandigarh, Dec 26 (IANS) Six people died of swine flu at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here Saturday, taking the toll in the union territory to 48, health officials said.
?Six patients - four men and two women - died here today (Saturday) of swine flu. They included three from Punjab and one each from Chandigarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh,? H.C. Gera, the nodal officer for swine flu, told IANS.

This was the maximum number of deaths on a single day in Chandigarh.

So far, over 725 suspected cases of swine flu have been screened in Chandigarh hospitals, of which over 300 tested positive.



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Swine flu: December sees 38 deaths in Chandigarh

2009-12-27 17:20:00


The dip in the mercury in December has seen a surge in swine flu cases in this union territory, and a high death toll of 38 in the month so far, officials said Sunday.

The H1N1 toll in Chandigarh so far is 48. Fourteen of them died in the last seven days. On Saturday, the maximum deaths of six in a single day were recorded.


'The dip in mercury has made this virus more contagious and people have become more prone to this infection. We have directed all our doctors and other medical staff to remain extra-cautious and keep a close tab on the situation,' H.C. Gera, the nodal officer for swine flu, told IANS.


'We have observed that most of those who succumbed to the disease, approached the hospital in a very advanced stage of infection. We are running a widespread campaign to educate the masses about the do's and don'ts and have told them to immediately approach the nearest hospital if they show any symptoms.'


Last week, the technical committee of the health department had declared the status of swine flu here as 'community spread'. It implied that the infection was not limited to any high-risk group and doctors can prescribe the tamiflu dosage just on the basis of symptoms.


'Presently, we are waiting for the test reports of 15 more patients. There is no need to panic as we have sufficient stocks of medicines and are well-equipped to handle any kind of emergency situation,' Gera said.


So far, over 725 suspected cases of swine flu have been screened in Chandigarh, of which 313 tested positive.


Of the 48 casualties in Chandigarh, 23 were from Punjab, 11 from Haryana, seven from here, six from Himachal Pradesh and one from Uttar Pradesh.


The testing facility at the virology department of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) caters to the needs of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.


In Punjab, 164 patients have tested positive and 30 deaths were reported so far due to swine flu.


In Haryana, over 1,250 positive cases of influenza A virus have been reported in the last few months and of these nearly 600 were from Gurgaon.

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2 more fall prey to H1N1 virus
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 29
Two more person succumbed to swine flu in the city today, raising the death toll so far to 50. The number of H1N1 patients has also risen to 320, with new cases being reported during the day. Of these, two were from Haryana and one from Punjab.

Two women died this morning at PGI today. ?Harpreet Kaur (29) from Kurushetra and 30 year old Parminder from Patiala died today due to swine flu. Both were tested positive for the virus,? said HC Gera, UT Nodal Officer for swine flu.

The victim who were tested positive for swine flu are 15 year old girl from Nabha, another woman (24) from Ambala and 37 year old person from Jagadhari.

So far, 50 people have died of swine flu in city hospitals, including 7 from Chandigarh, 23 from Punjab and 14 from Haryana and others from the Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Over 320 people have tested positive, including 153 from Chandigarh, 83 from Punjab and 75 from Haryana and 8 from Himachal Pradesh and others from UP.

Meanwhile, the UT health department revealed the name of 10 private doctors who are authorized to give treatment for swine flu. They are from various sectors in city.
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Five deaths due to swine flu in Chandigarh, six new cases
IANS 31 December 2009, 01:35pm ISTText Size:|Topics:Chandigarh
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Swine flu deaths

CHANDIGARH: Five more deaths due to the influenza A (H1N1) virus were reported in union territory (UT), taking the toll to 55, officials said Thursday.

"Five deaths were reported in Chandigarh hospitals yesterday (Wednesday) evening. The deceased were identified as Chandigarh resident Rajan Kumar, 52, Ganga Ram, 65, from Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, Ritu Gulati, 34, from Ambala in Haryana and Lajwanti, 66, and Pooja, 20, both from towns in Punjab," H C Gera, UT nodal officer for swine flu, said.

He added: "Three of these people died at PGIMER (Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research) while the other two deaths were reported at the government hospital in Sector 32. We have informed the health officials of other states about these deaths."

Health officials have quarantined five family members of Rajan Kumar, who stayed here in Sector 30.

Six more patients, including a doctor working at PGIMER, tested positive for swine flu. They were two from Chandigarh, three from Punjab and one from Haryana.

So far, over 800 patients have been screened for swine flu infection here, out of which over 325 tested positive.

In the month of December alone, nearly 45 deaths and over 170 positive cases of swine flu have been reported in UT hospitals.
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Fresh case of swine flu reported in Chandigarh



Chandigarh: After a gap of almost a week, a fresh case of swine flu was reported in the city on Saturday. The male patient is recuperating at a private hospital and is responding to Tamiflu treatment, say doctors. While the sudden decline in the number of cases has come as a relief to the residents of the region, health department officials said: ?The decline may be because of patients taking medicines with prescriptions only, without undergoing the test,? said a senior official.

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Slow start to H1N1 vaccination programme
Neelam Sharma


Posted: Friday , Mar 19, 2010 at 0236 hrs


Them & US From ABCD to almightyHealth dangers of GM FoodsStand on Bt Brinjal Very few doctors, paramedics take shots on first day
No swine flu cases reported in last two months


The swine flu scare might have died down in the region in the last two months, but the H1N1 virus refuses to leave the city medicos.


Even as the doctors get their lessons on the vaccine Penanza, approved by the Health Ministry, the first day of vaccination at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Sector 32 generated a rather lukewarm response.


With nearly 2,500 staff members identified by the hospital authorities to get the vaccine dose, only 32 came forward to get the shot of the intra muscular drug on the first day. Of these, 15 were nurses and 17 doctors, including junior and senior resident doctors.


With circulars being issued, sessions and meetings being held and the staff being counselled to go for the vaccine, authorities are rather hopeful that the figures would improve in the next seven days, the time period within which the stock once opened has to be exhausted.

?It is not mandatory for the staff to get vaccinated. We can only counsel them and inform them about the availability of the doses in the hospitals. It?s for them to decide if they want to get vaccinated,? said the Medical Superintendent of the hospital Dr Vipin Kaushal.


With no fresh cases of swine flu reported in the region and isolation wards at the hospitals having no visitors, lack of enthusiasm of the medical community about the vaccination is clearly visible.


While GMCH got on with its vaccination schedule on Thursday, the other two keys hospitals ? PGI and GMSH, Sector 16 ? have yet to procure their Panenza quota from the local health department, which has received 10,800 doses of the vaccine on Monday.


?Yes, we have received the letter about the arrival of the vaccine. We will get it on Friday and hen accordingly the plan would be chalked out how to go about administering the vaccine among the staff,? said the MS, Dr N K Arora at GMSH.


At PGI, the spokesperson said, ?Arrangements are being made to procure the vaccine.? Even as the officials go through the routine of holding meetings and drawing up schedules for the vaccination programme, a section of doctors feels its an exercise ?too little too late?, especially when there have been no fresh cases of H1N1 for over two months.


?Had the vaccine arrived in January, everyone would have grabbed it and any information about it would have generated a huge response. Now there have been virtually no cases. The staff members are apprehensive. It?s more like a wait and watch approach adopted by many,? remarked a doctor.


FACTOID
* Over 55 deaths and 350 H1N1 positive cases till now. No fresh cases have been reported since the first week of January
* India has purchased 1.5 million doses after conducting a bridging study for its H1N1 vaccine in Delhi and Pune to determine the vaccine?s behaviour among Indians. A bridging study is supplemental research performed in a new region to provide clinical data on efficacy, safety, dosage and dose regimen
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/slow-start-to-h1n1-vaccination-programme/592852/0
 
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Express News Service
Tags : swineflu, H1N1
Posted: Thu Jul 15 2010, 01:51 hrs
Chandigarh:


Even as swine flu cases have once again begun to surface in Delhi and other parts of the country, authorities here say that suspected cases from the region have begun to be reported at the screening centres in the city in the last few days.
Even though no one has tested positive with the killer virus in the region after January, one or two suspected cases are being reported every week, say authorities. ?Since the intense cold wave in January, even suspected samples were not coming to hospitals for testing. But since the last few weeks, a few suspected cases from adjoining states have been reported, all of which, however, tested negative. We are keeping a watch on the flu situation here,? said an official.

With the PGI testing lab lying defunct for the last several weeks, the local authorities here are sending the samples to Delhi. Sources in the Health department told Newsline that a review meeting is being planned in the coming few days with the health secretary to assess the situation here. Authorities have also said that the situation demands preventive measures even though there is no reason to panic.

?As of now, the situation is under control since we have not received any positive case in the last several months. However, with the virus active in other parts of the country, we plan to discuss if we need to issue a fresh set of guidelines to the residents,? said an official.

The H1N1 virus had struck the city in summer last year with an NRI student testing positive in May. Since then, over 55 people have lost their lives while over 380 patients have tested positive. No positive case has been reported in the last six months, said the UT Health department.

Are we prepared to fighth h1n1?

The only testing lab at the PGI is lying defunct for the last several weeks and the samples are being sent to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), Delhi. The lab at PGI, started to cater to samples of UT, Punjab, Haryana and J-K, has not been testing samples ?due to some technical difficulty?. Also, the 10,000 vaccines sent to the city for injecting the frontline health workers in the hospitals is still to be fully utilised. A majority of the stock is lying unused.

New drug launched

Vaccine manufacturer, Serum Institute, has announced the launch of its indigenously developed intra-nasal vaccine named Nasovac for preventing H1N1 infections. The single dose vaccine is to be sniffed, making it a painless prevention mode, stated the company on Wednesday. The vaccine is approved by the Drug Controller General of India for usage by any individual above the age of three, except pregnant women.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/-Suspected-swine-flu-cases-surface-every-week-/646675
 
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Final roundup of 2009 season from http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100815/cth1.htm

59 deaths in 2009

Doctors treating swine flu patients at city hospitals faced a tough time last year with half of the 39 medicos who got the infection from patients from PGI only. Over 800 blood samples of suspected H1N1 patients were taken at the hospitals. 350 people were found to be infected of whom 59 died, eight of whom were city residents.
 
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Technical snag hits H1N1 testing


CHANDIGARH: The spread of swine flu may be continuing unabated, but the city would remain dangerously unaware as the testing facility at PGI has developed a technical snag. UT health officials said due to the glitch, there was no way of differentiating between suspected and confirmed H1N1 cases. The Tricity has seen 45 suspected cases for swine flu and three confirmed ones during this year.

''Due to a technical fault in the testing facility for H1N1 at PGI, we were unable to get any reports on Thursday,'' said UT's nodal officer for swine flu Abha Rana. This comes at a time when Tricity is battling hard to control the spread of swine flu.

The testing centre at PGI's virology department is the only certified centre in the region. Last year, the ministry of health and family welfare had approved the testing service at PGI. Before that, samples used to be sent to National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi, and National Institute of Virology, Pune.

''This took more than required time. The idea was to reduce the waiting period so that lives could be saved,'' a PGI faculty said.

Read more: Technical snag hits H1N1 testing - Chandigarh - City - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...testing/articleshow/6442306.cms#ixzz0xoltkv2V
 
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