Saturday, March 24, 2012

India: Death Toll from H1N1 Increases to 8 since 10 days ago

Hat-tip PFI
PUNE: A one-year-old girl died at a civic-run hospital in Pimpri two days ago, becoming the eighth victim of swine flu in Pune district and the second in the Pimpri-Chinchwad area in the last ten days. The throat swab report of the girl returned positive for the contagion on Friday.

The girl, Sania Rathod, of Vidyanagar in Chinchwad, died at the YCM hospital in Pimpri at 9.30 pm on March 21, said Milind Jawale, medical officer of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).

Sania developed fever and cough on March 18 and was admitted to a children's hospital at Chinchwad on March 21 after her condition worsened. "She was brought to YCM hospital at 7 pm the same day and immediately put on ventilator support. She died a couple of hours later," Jawale said.

Meanwhile, 16 more people tested positive for swine flu on Friday. Fourteen of them are from Pune and two from Pimpri-Chinchwad. With this, the number of swine flu infected people in Pune has gone up to 112 and to 14 in Pimpri-Chinchwad, officials said.

The condition of six critically ill swine flu patients - four in Pune and two in Pimpri-Chinchwad - remains unchanged.

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