Death Toll in India at 63

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Flu claims nine more lives, nationwide toll touches 43

New Delhi/Bangalore, Aug 20 (PTI) Swine flu caused the first fatalities in Delhi where two persons died while seven more deaths were reported in Karnataka, Gujarat and Pune today as the nationwide toll due to the deadly virus mounted to 43.

Five persons died in Karnataka and one each in Pune and Gujarat. The day also saw a spurt in fresh positive cases -- 159 -- across the country taking the total to 2,401. Pune reported 66 cases today and Mumbai 18.

Samrat Pandeya (31) died this morning at the government-run Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in the capital, while Renu Gupta (38) succumbed to the virus last night there, hospital Medical Superintendent N K Chaturvedi said.

The H1N1 virus claimed its 16th victim in Pune and 21st in Maharashtra when a 27-year-old woman Dipti Pawar died at the state-run Sassoon hospital today, officials said.

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Swine flu death toll rises 48
2009-08-22 02:28:57
Last Updated: 2009-08-22 02:31:56

New Delhi: Twelve more swine flu deaths were confirmed in India on Friday, taking the total number of deaths from the H1N1 virus to 48, the union health ministry said here.

The maximum deaths have been reported from Maharashtra where 27 people have died. The state, which is the worst hit by the virus, recorded six deaths in the last 24 hours.

The country also reported 138 new cases of influenza A (H1N1), taking the total number of infected people across the country to 2,539.

Apart from Maharashtra, two people died in Karnataka, three in Gujarat and one in Tamil Nadu. Eleven deaths have been reported in Karnataka so far.

It is followed by Gujarat where five people have died. In Tamil Nadu and Delhi, the number is two each, and in Kerala one person has fallen victim to the deadly virus.

At a conference of state health ministers in New Delhi on Friday, union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that 36 deaths had been reported till Thursday.

But he admitted that there has been some confusion about the death toll and the officials are checking the figures with the state governments.

"There is no need to panic as the country has so far managed to control the spread of virus," he said.

I.R. Perumal, principal secretary of health and family welfare in Karnataka, said the state has recorded 11 deaths from swine flu.

"In our state, there were 211 positive cases reported so far. Of which 11 have died due to late diagnosis," Perumal told IANS at the sidelines of the state health ministers conference.

"Over 100 of the total cases have been cured and discharged. We are ready to tackle the spread of the virus," he added.

According to the health ministry, about 13,364 people have been tested so far out of which 2,539 tested positive for Influenza A H1N1.

The 138 new cases were recorded from Mumbai (6), Pune (62), Ahmednagar (1), Nanded (2), Akola (1), Jalna (1), Kolhapur(1), Nasik (3), Nagpur (2), Chennai (10), Delhi (12), Bangalore (19), Bijapur (1), Kolkata (3), Silchar(1), Ernakulam (7), Kota (1), Srinagar (2), Jammu (1), Agra (1) and Raipur (1).

Only three patients, who tested positive, had travel history.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 182,166 laboratory confirmed cases of H1N1 have ben reported till Aug 13. About 1,799 deaths have been reported worldwide, maximum from Mexico and the US.

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3 more die of swine flu, death toll crosses 50
PTI 22 August 2009, 05:52pm IST

NEW DELHI: Three more persons, including one in worst-hit Pune, succumbed to the swine flu on Saturday, pushing the country-wide fatalities from the HINI pandemic to 51.

A death each occurred in Pune, Tamil Nadu and Goa with four more testing positive for the virus in Assam even as close to 2,600 patients were undergoing treatment across the country.

With a 60-year-old man succumbing to the disease in Pune in Maharashtra, the city recorded its 20th swine flu death.

All educational institutions in Pune, which reported its first fatality on August 3, had been shut for the past one week to prevent the spread of the infection.

The flu claimed its third victim in Tamil Nadu when a 45-year-old man died at the government hospital in Chennai.
The man, whose throat swabs tested positive on August 19, was admitted to the hospital on August 12 with complaints of breathlessness and bleeding piles.

A 67-year-old man, suspected to be suffering from the swine flu, died at a private hospital in Goa, health officials in state capital Panaji said.

Shiva Murthy, who arrived from Bangalore yesterday, was admitted to the hospital with high fever, they said adding he breathed his last this morning.

His throat swabs had been sent for HINI testing to Delhi and the reports were awaited, the officials said.

[JimO]

Re: Death Toll in India at 54

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Six more swine flu deaths in India, toll jumps to 54
August 22nd, 2009 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS

New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) Six more swine flu deaths were reported in India, taking the death toll due to the H1N1 virus to 54, the union health ministry said here Saturday.
While four deaths were reported from Maharashtra, one each was confirmed in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

The country also reported 131 new cases of influenza A (H1N1), taking the total number of infected people across the country to 2,669.

With the four deaths in Maharashtra, the toll in the state has gone up to 31.

In Tamil Nadu, a 45-year-old man died of swine flu, taking the toll in the state to three, an official said.

The victim, identified only as Sekar, died Friday at the Government General Hospital. He had Aug 12 undergone an operation for piles at another government hospital.

?Four days later, he developed breathlessness and was shifted to Government General Hospital and tested positive for swine flu,? Director of Medical Education S. Vinayakam said.

Tamiflu tablets were administered to him, but Sekar breathed his last Friday night. Sekar had contracted the flu locally and had not travelled overseas.

The other death was in Karnataka where 12 people have died so far.

Gujarat has confirmed five deaths so far, Delhi two, while in Kerala one person has died.

Of the total 131 confirmed cases reported Saturday, 44 were from Delhi alone.

The worst-hit state of Maharashtra reported 23 cases, with Pune, considered the epicentre of the virus, has 16 fresh cases.

The rest were reported from Karnataka (21), Tamil Nadu (20), West Bengal (5), Kerala (8), Chhattisgarh (1), Goa (3), Haryana (2), Rajasthan (2) and Madhya Pradesh (1).

Of the 131 new cases, six people in Delhi and two in Kerala had travelled to countries that were affected with the flu.

?About 14,187 people have been tested so far of whom 2,669 are positive for Influenza A (H1N1),? a statement issued by the health ministry said here.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 182,166 laboratory confirmed cases of H1N1 have ben reported till Aug 13. About 1,799 deaths have been reported worldwide, the maximum from Mexico and the US

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Re: Death Toll in India at 63

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7 more deaths, H1N1 toll is 63

Age Correspondents

New Delhi/Panaji/

Mumbai/Chennai

Aug. 22: Seven more people, including a two-month-old baby, died of H1N1 flu since Friday evening, pushing the countrywide toll to 63 even as the Karnataka government announced free treatment for swine flu patients in private hospitals.

Four deaths occurred in Maharashtra and one each in Goa, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan as several more, including 44 in Delhi and 42 in Karnataka, tested positive for the virus. With the death of a 60-year-old man in Pune, the city, where all educational institutions had been shut for the past one week, recorded its 20th death due to the deadly virus.

Health authorities maintained 131 people were tested positive for carrying the flu virus on Saturday, taking the total number of people infected with the disease to 2,669. In Mumbai, two patients ? one of whom was two months old ? dying of H1N1 flu. Two-month-old Rizwana Sheikh succumbed at Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central and Ankita Nagarkar (12) died at Chinchpokli?s Kasturba Hospital. Doctors, however said that Rizwana died after developing complications arising out of bacterial pneumonia after she had been tested H1N1 positive and had also seen out her Tamiflu treatment.

A 67-year-old man with influenza-like conditions died on Saturday morning at a private hospital in Goa of suspected H1N1 virus. Medical officials have sent a throat swab to the Kasturba Medical College in Manipal for testing to ascertain if the man died of the dreaded virus. "A rapid test done on the man came negative for H1N1 virus, but further tests are required before we can say anything definite," Goa health director Rajananda Dessai said. A 45-year-old man from Chrompet became Tamil Nadu?s third swine flu victim on Friday night. He died due to cardiac arrest, brought on by several complications arising from H1N1 influenza at the Government General Hospital in Chennai on Friday night. Flu victim Sekar had no history of travel to areas affected by the epidemic, or contact with a flu-affected person, doctors said. Sekar was referred to GH from the Chrompet government hospital with complaints of "bleeding piles" and breathlessness on August 12. "He was suffering for long from pulmonary tuberculosis, due to which he had also developed lung disease. The patient was also diagnosed with anaemia," GH dean J. Mohanasundaram said. In Rajasthan, a 26-year-old woman admitted to Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur with symptoms of swine flu died late Friday night. The report of the H1N1 tests on the woman were awaited, SMS Hospital superintendent Narpat Singh said. Maharashtra reported 23 fresh cases, including 16 from Pune, 3 from Nagpur, 2 from Dhule and 1 each from Ahmednagar and Beed.

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Death Toll in India at 63

MUMBAI: The deaths of two children took the city?s unofficial H1N1 toll to seven on Saturday although the civic authorities maintained that it was
still five. The two new deaths, on Friday night, were those of Ankita Nagarkar, a 12-year-old asthmatic girl from an Andheri chawl, and Rizwana Khatoon Ansari, a two-month-old infant from a Byculla slum.

The fifth death of Otto Jain, a 38-year-old Kandivli resident, occurred on August 19, but her throat swab test report confirming her H1N1 status arrived recently. The discrepancy over the H1N1 toll arises because of the BMC?s position that two of the seven victims (Sayeda Dorjiwala and Jain), though H1N1-positive, had died of other complications. Sayeda also lived in Mumbra, outside Greater Mumbai limits.

Worryingly, both Rizwana and Otto were administered the entire five-day course of Tamiflu. The explanation of civic executive health officer Dr J Thanekar was that though both were H1N1-positive, they had also developed bacterial pneumonia, which they succumbed to eventually. Strangely, however, Rizwana is on the BMC H1N1 tally.

In a scary indicator of how fast H1N1 is spreading in the slums, one of the three critical patients in Kasturba Hospital is from Nityanand Nagar in Ghatkopar, which is close to Laxmi Nagar where an H1N1 victim, Dattatraya Gawde, used to live. Rizwana too lived in the congested Janata Shakar society slum at Byculla with 10 members of her family. She also had meningitis and was on a ventilator.

Ankita, who studied in Savitri School at Saki Naka, died in the wee hours of Saturday. She was a known patient of asthma and had been treated for tuberculosis in 2007.

On Saturday, a Navi Mumbai teenager was rushed to Kasturba Hospital in a critical state and put on ventilator support. The Mira Road resident who lost her baby on August 18 is still on the ventilator.

The BMC has now set up two more testing centres at Sion Hospital and the Sion Hospital outpost in Dharavi, taking the total number of such centres to 14. ?Three mobile vans will conduct door-to-door primary screening for fever patients in slums,?? said Manisha Mhaiskar, additional municipal commissioner. A 10-bed ICU for swine flu patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome will also begin on Monday.

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Re: Death Toll in India at 63

Third A(H1N1) death in State



Ramya Kannan and K. Manikandan






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Patient?s other health problems made him vulnerable to the flu

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CHENNAI: G. Sekar of Radha Nagar in Chromepet here, who tested positive for A(H1N1), died at the government General Hospital here late Friday night of complications arising out of the condition. This takes the A(H1N1) death toll in the State to three.

Sekar, 45, was admitted to the surgical ward of the GH with breathlessness and bleeding piles. He required surgery for that problem. But he had many other co-morbidities including bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He also had a history of pulmonary TB. This rendered him at high risk for A(H1N1) flu, Director of Medical Education S.Vinayagam told mediapersons on Saturday.

He was diagnosed with Grade 3 haemorrhoids and anaemia. His breathlessness worsened and he was transferred from the surgical unit to the medical unit on August 14. With no improvement in respiratory distress, doctors treating him decided to test for A(H1N1). The test turned out to be positive and he was shifted to isolation ward 226 in the GH on August 19, hospital Dean J. Mohanasundaram said. He was put on Tamiflu immediately. But his condition deteriorated and he died at 8-25 p.m. on Friday.

Sekar was unemployed and unmarried. He was living with his parents, Gokulraj and Savithri, in a house on Elumalai Steet in Radha Nagar, according to K. Vanaja, Deputy Director of Health Services, Saidapet Health Unit District (HUD). Dr. Mohanasundaram remarked that the patient had no history of travel to an A(H1N1)-infected area or any contact with persons who had the virus.

The body was handed over to his relatives with instructions for proper cremation.

Pallavaram Municipal Chairman E. Karunanidhi said they had received information about Sekar?s death. Around 11 p.m. his body was brought to the cremation shed in Ganapathypuram in an ambulance straight from the hospital, as per the recommendations of public health officials.

A team of sanitary staff, wearing protective masks, cremated Sekar?s body. Only his younger brother was present.

Medical camp


A team of doctors from the Saidapet HUD conducted a medical camp to screen the residents of Elumalai Street and other areas of Radha Nagar on Saturday morning. Ms. Vanaja said they did not find anyone who was symptomatic.

The total number of positive A(H1N1) cases in Tamil Nadu stood at 185 on Saturday. Of this, 92 patients are still under treatment. The rest have been discharged after treatment over time.

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