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India: Swine flu toll rises to 102

Ronan Kelly

Ronan Kelly

Retired 2020
VARANASI: The death of a suspected swine flu patient Manoj Kumar Gupta (21) at Sadiganj muhalla in Machhlishehar area in Jaunpur district on Friday
brought the health department on its toe. The chief medical officer of Jaunpur Dr DK Patoria, however, denied the death due to swine flu infection.

According to the reports, Manoj, who lived in Mumbai for earning livelihood, returned home after a prolonged illness and died on Friday. The CMO said on Saturday that Manoj had been suffering from viral fever for over a month and he asthma problem also. He was under treatment at the municipal hospital in Mumbai, but seeing no improvement in his health condition he came back to his native place.

The, CMO, however, admitted that the throat swab of Manoj was sent for testing during his stay at Mumbai. But the swab test report was not available, said the CMO adding that he was not given the drug of swine flu. He was under treatment for viral fever only, he added. The CMO also went to Machhlishehar on Saturday to take first hand account of the matter.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4948871.cms
 
Re: One dies of suspected swine flu (#102)

Re: One dies of suspected swine flu (#102)

Swine flu toll rises to 102



Pune/Dehradun, Aug 31 (PTI) As the country battled swine flu, the pandemic took the lives of two men and a woman in Maharashtra and Uttarakhand, raising the nationwide toll to 102 even as 128 more tested positive for the virus in various states.

42-year-old Vilas Padale and 26-year-old Anil Nikam died due to flu infection at separate private hospitals in Pune last night, officials said today.

They said as many as 15 patients, currently undergoing treatment for the viral disease, were in critical condition in various hospitals in worst-hit Pune, where 31 people have succumbed to the disease.

35-year-old Rubina, a resident of Mussoorie, who was suffering from cold, cough and fever for the last five days, died in Doon Hospital last night, nodal officer for swine flu in Uttarakhand Pankaj Jain said. Her throat swab samples have been sent for test, he said.

http://www.ptinews.com/news/257120_Swine-flu-toll-rises-to-102
 
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