Thursday, August 13, 2009

SWINE FLU DEATH RAISES TO 23

Five more persons, including an AIDS patient, died of swine flu in the city, taking the countrywide death toll in the pandemic to 23. The city has witnessed 15 deaths. A70-year-old Parubhai Shinde, who was admitted to a hospital here four days back following high fever and other symptoms of swine flu died on Thursday night, health officials said. A 44-year-old HIV positive Prabhakar Wariager died on Thursday of swine flu within hours of his admission to the Sassoon Hospital.

Another senior citizen, Bharati Goyal, who was suffering from fever and breathlessness for the last four days, died of suspected swine flu, on Thursday. Health officials said 37-year-old Archana Kolhe, who was shifted to government-run Sassoon Hospital on August 10 with fever and acute respiratory problems from a private hospital, succumbed to the flu on Thursday afternoon. An eight-month-old boy, Swabhiman Kamble, died late on Thursday night in Sahyadri Hospital, a designated private hospital to treat flu patients, Zagade said.

As the swine flu cases continued to mount, the Union health ministry has decided to conduct from today an orientation programme for experts from private laboratories engaged by the government for carrying out diagnostic test for swine flu patients.

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