Gujarat: H1N1 Pandemic 2009-2010; 486 confirmed fatalities

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 162 (170) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 162 (170) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

City's own H1N1 testing lab within week: health minister
TNN, 13 January 2010, 11:17pm ISTText Size:|Topics:Rajkot
H1N1 testing lab within week

RAJKOT: Taking a serious note of H1N1 death toll across Saurashtra, state heath and tourism minister Jay Narayan Vyas in his second consecutive address in the city on Wednesday said, the state government is going to set up a laboratory for H1N1 virus testing in Rajkot.

"The laboratory will be operational within a week. It will help reduce the time lag of test results of suspected cases of Saurashtra,'' Vyas said. At present the region's hospitals send samples to BJ Medical College in Ahmedbad. He also said that new ventilators will be provided at all isolation wards of hospitals treating case in Saurashtra.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, one more death of a suspected swine flu patientSulochana Ravi, 30, a pregnant woman from Rafaliya village of Wankaner talukawas reported from PDU hospital in the city. At present there are 33 patients out of which six are in critical condition, four are on ventilators.
As per government reports, 18 more cases were reported from the state on Wednesday six from Ahmedabad, five from Rajkot, one each from Vadodara and Amreli, two from Jamnagar, and two from Bhavnagar.

The state death toll is 162, with one death of Ghansham Patel, 28, in Ahmedabad's civil hospital while on Tuesday, two deaths were reportedseven-year-old girl Vali Karshan in GG Civil Hospital Jamnagar and 47-year-old woman Rukya Fakir in Sir T General Hospital in Bhavnagar.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-week-health-minister/articleshow/5441964.cms

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 162 (170) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 162 (170) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Two die of swine flu in Gujarat, state toll reaches 172

STAFF WRITER 22:15 HRS IST
Ahmedabad, Jan 14 (PTI) Two more persons died due to swine flu in Gujarat, taking the H1N1 death toll in the state to 172, health officials said today.

30-year-old Pravinbhai died due to the infection at the PDU hospital in Rajkot today, while Kankuben Rathod, 22, died at a Civil Hospital here yesterday, they said.

Meanwhile, 13 fresh swine flue cases were reported today from Ahmedabad, Amreli, Rajkot, Surat, Bhavnagar and Junagadh.

So far 978 persons have tested positive for swine flu in the state.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 164 (172) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 164 (172) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Swine flu claims two lives in Guj, toll climbs to 174

STAFF WRITER 21:35 HRS IST
Ahmedabad, Jan 15 (PTI) Two more persons succumbed to swine flu in Gujarat in last two days taking the toll due to the deadly virus in the state to 174.

Eight new cases have been reported in the state, health department officials said today.

Retaben Rameshbhai (30) died at PDU Hospital in Rajkot today while Sirajuddin Naruddin (30) passed away yesterday at civil hospital in Ahmedabad, they said.

Meanwhile, the 8 new swine flu cases have been reported from Rajkot, Jamnagar, Bhuj, Patan and Ahmedabad.

So far, 986 patients have tested positive for the virus in the state.
http://ptinews.com/news/470625_Swine-flu-claims-two-lives-in-Guj--toll-climbs-to-174

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 166 (174) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 166 (174) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Swine Flu Death Total Mounts to 180 in Gujarat
Ahmedabad | Jan 16, 2010 PRINT SHARE COMMENTS









Six more people, three men and three women, have succumbed to swine flu which has already killed 180 people in Gujarat, health officials said.

As many as 28 new cases of swine flu were reported from Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Vadodara, Bhavnagar, Amreli, Jamnagar and Surendranagar.

According to the health department officials today three persons Jagdish Gadhvi, 41, at V S Hospital, Rajeshri Patel, 26, at Apollo Hospital and Ranmal Devabhai, 40 at PDU hospital in Rajkot have died of swine flu while other three deaths occurred yesterday but they were reported today.

They are Niruben Bharatbhai, 28, at PDU hospital, Rajkot, Mugatlal Gangasankar, 40, and Ashaben Chandulal, 27, both died at G G Hospital in Jamnagar. These patients died of swine flu yesterday but deaths were reported today, health officials.

Meanwhile, so far 1,014 cases of swine H1N1 have been reported from the state including 28 cases reported today.

The deadly viral infection caused by H1N1 has already claimed 180 lives out of which eight persons came from Rajasthan, who had come here for treatment.

http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?672972

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 172 (180) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 172 (180) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

13th H1N1 death in the city
TNN, 17 January 2010, 10:39pm IST

VADODARA: Swine flu has claimed second life in the city in the last two days, taking the death toll to 13. Thirty-five-year-old Kamlesh Thakkar, a resident of Sama, succumbed to the virus on Sunday morning. Thakkar was admitted to SSG Hospital (SSG) in a critical condition on January 11 and there was no improvement in his condition.

He had visited SSG complaining of cold, cough and fever. After looking at his symptoms, he was admitted in the isolation ward. His samples also tested positive for swine flu. His condition deteriorated on Sunday which resulted in his death. He was later cremated at Khaswadi crematorium.

Thakkar used to run tuition classes in Fategunj area of the city and was the only bread earner of a seven-member family. He is survived by wife, two children and four other family members.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/13th-H1N1-death-in-the-city/articleshow/5457999.cms

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 173 (181) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 173 (181) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Six die of swine flu in Gujarat, toll rises to 193

STAFF WRITER 22:21 HRS IST
Ahmedabad, Jan 18 (PTI) Six fresh deaths due to swine flu were reported from Gujarat today, taking the toll due to H1N1 virus infection in the state to 193, health department officials said here.

Two deaths were reported from Vadodara and Jamnagar each today, they said.

One person each died due to swine flu in Rajkot and Jamnagar yesterday but the deaths were reported today, they said.

Meanwhile, fresh swine flu cases were reported from Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Rajkot and Amreli. So far, 1,040 cases have been reported by health authorities across the state.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 185 (193) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 185 (193) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Two die of swine flu, eight tested positive


Express News Service
Posted: Jan 19, 2010 at 2248 hrs IST


Ahmedabad Two persons died and eight others were tested positive with swine flu on Monday, said Sayaji Rao General (SSG) Hospital officials.
Vinayak Pathak (56), died in the afternoon, while Meena Agarwal (28), from Snehkunj society in Gorwa, died this morning.

Sources said Agarwal was brought to the hospital on Sunday in a critical condition. Pathak was tested positive with the deadly H1N1 virus on January 15. He was brought to the hospital on January 12 with symptoms of the swine flu, they said.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/two-die-of-swine-flu-eight-tested-positive/568860/

Meanwhile, about eight others, were tested positive for the swine flu virus at the SSG Hospital on Monday evening.

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 185 (193) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 185 (193) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Second wave of H1N1 kills 138 in 50 days

By Vipul Rajput
Posted On Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 03:34:45 AM


The Ahmedabad Civil Hospital microbiology lab has conducted 3,500 swine flu tests since August last year

Swine flu is rearing its ugly head again. And this time with a vengeance. How else do you explain 138 deaths in December-January alone as compared to 47 in the period between August and November? H1N1 has claimed 185 people in the state so far.

Of these, 69 deaths took place in December and another 69 between January 1-18.

The impact of this ?second wave? of swine flu can be gauged from the fact that on January 13, 6,297 Tamiflu tablets were sold across the state.

Pravin Patel, an NRI, was the first victim of the deadly virus in the state. A resident of Ranip, he succumbed to H1N1 on August 9 last year. That month, 25 people died of swine flu in the state. The number went down to 7 in September, touched 8 in October and dropped to 7 in November.

But in December, 69 people died of the virus. Worse still, in the first 18 days of January, 69 more deaths took place.

Tamiflu tablets are available at all chemist shops in the state

Last month, Mirror had reported that winter would see an increase in number of cases as the virus is known to replicate faster during the season. This is probably because dry air enables the virus-laden droplets to float longer.

From August to December 31, 2009, the total number of swine flu positive cases in the state stood at 697. Till now 38 from Ahmedabad have succumbed to the killer virus.

In this month alone, swine flu has sickened 343 people taking the state?s cumulative figure to 1,040. Says a lab technician at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital: ?Initially, we used to test 25 swabs every day. These days, nearly 70 tests are conducted. We need to decontaminate the room every six hours. Till now we have conducted more than 3,500 tests.?


Cases to drop in summer

But why this resurgence of the H1N1? Why the spike in cases in the last 18 days? Swine flu?s nodal agency officer Dr S J Gandhi calls it the second wave of the virus in its even-more-potent form.

?The second wave is more potent than the first. We were expecting an increase in cases, but we are also doing everything we can to control it. Private practitioners have been directed to prescribe Tamiflu tablets to suspects. All the chemist shops in the state have sufficient stock of the virus. We are also trying to create more awareness among people. According to the figures given by Food and Drugs Control Administration, there definitely has been a huge increase in the sale of the tablet. However, we are confident that warm weather conditions by February will see a drop in cases.?

He has also urged people to visit a medical practitioner even if they have developed seasonal flu-like symptoms.

On Monday, four deaths were reported in the state ? two in Vadodara, one in Jamnagar, one in Rajkot and one in Ahmedabad. Hussain Gagde, 32, died of swine flu at MediSurge Hospital on Monday. The state recorded 19 confirmed cases on Monday.
http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/arti...Second-wave-of-H1N1-kills-138-in-50-days.html

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 185 (193) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 185 (193) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Five more succumb to swine flu in Guj, state toll 198

STAFF WRITER 22:14 HRS IST
Ahmedabad, Jan 19 (PTI) Five more persons have succumbed to swine flu taking the toll due to the deadly virus in Gujarat to 198, while 28 fresh cases were reported across the state, health officials said today.

Out of the five cases, four persons died today, they said.

Two persons Niranjan Vyas, 35, and six-month old Rutvik Manu died at PDU hospital in Rajkot, while Kedarnath Yadav, 55, and Denanath Rawal, 24, both died at Civil hospital here.

A 22-year-old woman, Daria Prajapati, died of swine flu at the LJ hospital in Ahmedabad, they added.

Meanwhile, 28 fresh swine flu cases were reported from Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Surat and Bhuj.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 190 (198) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 190 (198) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Another H1N1 death in city, toll rises to 16
TNN, 20 January 2010, 10:22pm ISTText Size:|Topics:Swine flu
H1N1

VADODARA: A 49-year-old assistant manager with a nationalised bank became the 16th person to succumb to swine flu in the city on Wednesday. Hitendra Parmar was admitted to SSG Hospital on Monday.

Parmar, a resident of Harni-Warasiya Ring Road, used to work as an assistant manager with Vijaya Bank's Raopura branch. Parmar was previously admitted to Shriji Hospital and later shifted to Metro Hospital. With no improvement in his condition, doctors referred him to SSG. His sample report that arrived on Wednesday evening confirmed him to be H1N1 positive.

However, he died before the reports arrived. His body was shifted to three crematoriums before being cremated finally at Khaswadi. The gas crematoriums in earlier three places did not work.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...city-toll-rises-to-16/articleshow/5482027.cms

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 191 (199) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 191 (199) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Five more succumb to swine flu in Gujarat, toll rises to 203
PTIWednesday, January 20, 2010 22:47 IST Email


Ahmedabad: Five more persons have succumbed to swine flu in the state, taking the toll due to the deadly virus in Gujarat to 203, health officials said.

Four persons - Mitalben Narnabhai, 18, Rajkot, Meena Kapadia, 75, and Rajesh Patel, 51, Ahmedabad and Anishben Ghori, 25, Bhavnagar - died of the infection today.

Hitendra Parmar (49) died in Vadodara yesterday, they said.

Meanwhile, 16 fresh swine flu cases were reported from Ahmedabad, Surat, Amreli, Rajkot and Jamnagar. So far, 1,084 people have tested positive for swine flu in the state, the officials added.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/repor...wine-flu-in-gujarat-toll-rises-to-203_1337165

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 195 (203) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 195 (203) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Ro's note: This report was filed before the one above, and details another 18 yo who died in Rajkot Wednesday. Why this person is not included in the report above is anyone's guess...unless one of these reports has the name wrong.....


Porbandar woman dies of swine flu in city
TNN, 20 January 2010, 09:39pm ISTText Size:|Topics:Swine flu
Rajkot

RAJKOT: An 18-year-old woman from a village in Porbandar became the 66th victim of the swine flu pandemic in the isolation ward of city's PDU hospital on Wednesday.

Nital Jodhvadiya of Kinderkheda village in Porbandar district was brought to the city on January 18. She tested positive for the virus subsequently and was put under intensive care. She lost her struggle against the killer disease on Wednesday morning. Sources at the hospital said she had also been suffering from Thalassemia.

Seventeen swine flu patients are undergoing treatment at the isolation ward, while five suspected patients have been admitted. Six of the positive patients are children and five are in critical condition. A source said till date, 554 patients have been treated for swine flu at the isolation ward.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...of-swine-flu-in-city-/articleshow/5481938.cms

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 196 (204) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 196 (204) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

3 more deaths due to Swine flu; Guj toll reaches to 206

]STAFF WRITER 21:46 HRS IST
Ahmedabad, Jan 21 (PTI) Swine flu has killed three more persons, taking the death toll to 203 while 12 new cases of the infectious disease were reported from the state today.

Meanwhile, new cases were today reported from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Jamnagar and Patan. So far, 1,096 people have tested positive with H1N1 infection while 206 people including eight from Rajasthan, have died here.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 198 (206) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 198 (206) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

What?s killing H1N1 patients?


The number of people dying of swine flu complications has spiralled out of control since December. But why, when treatment is available?

By Pradeep Mallik
Posted On Friday, January 22, 2010 at 02:29:13 AM

Reports are finding their way to media, exposing the World Health Organisation officials of exaggerating the threat of H1N1 virus. The industry-bureaucracy nexus successfully scared the governments across the globe into buying the idea that swine flu was a pandemic and into panic purchase of Tamiflu tablets manufactured by Roche Laboratories.


Every swine flu death hews a chunk away from the attraction of Gujarat as a health care destination
Experts tell us that there is no need to panic at the outbreak of the pandemic as common flu kills more people than this variation of flu. They had warned us that the virus will spread at a faster clip as temperature drops and the air becomes drier, for the virus floats in dry air for a longer duration. The good news was that the scientists had deciphered the cause, the maturity dynamics, and the treatment.

Yet people in Gujarat are dying of swine flu. And they are dropping dead by the dozen. According to official figures, 25 people died in August last year. That was the time health officials perhaps did not have much of an idea on how to take on the outbreak. Seven people died in September, 8 in October and seven in November.

The officials had pulled up their socks, obviously. But come the cooler months of December-January and the death rate spiralled out of control. Sixty-nine people died in December. January is only 21 days in and it has already outnumbered December. The number of people dying of the swine flu as of January 21 is 76.
Need they die if given proper treatment in time?

We now know that no one dies of swine flu. They die of complications arising out of the H1N1 virus attack which, in turn, leads to multiple organ failure. In that case, is it that the health officials in Gujarat are ignoring the other complications while treating patients for H1N1, or that they are not capable of managing the resultant complications? It is difficult to accept any of these premises.

Gujarat did a good job of containing the spread of the virus in the initial stages. When Union Minister Gulam Nabi Azad criticised the states for not doing enough to contain the pandemic in India, Gujarat Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas was among the few men who could have confronted him. His department was among the first to swing into action, creating isolation wards at Civil Hospital in its principal city of Ahmedabad and later at regional level in Surat and Rajkot.

Then what went wrong between November and December and what is it that continues to kill swine flu patients in the state? Are the people paying for the overconfidence of the health officials or has fatigue set in as represented by the near-absence of swine flu scanners at the state-organised kite festival during January 10-14?

If it is a case of overconfidence then the death roll is long and tragic enough to shake them up. Granted, a system cannot remain on ?high alert? for months on end. But when you are

faced with extraordinary challenge, you have to come up with a matching response to survive.

In the last couple of years, Gujarat has been trying to project itself as a health care hotspot. The attempt has paid some dividends with a lot of non-resident Gujaratis as also people from Africa flocking the state to get health care.

Are we resting on oars? Or are we waiting for the flu to follow the maturity graph that a pandemic follows, hoping the people develop mass immunity or the virus dies a natural death? None of these could be more unfortunate.

Every swine flu death hews a chunk away from the attraction of Gujarat as a health care destination. The earlier we pull up our socks, the more hot the spot will remain. More importantly, the more lives we will save.

After about 20 years in journalism, Pradeep Mallik thought he had seen it all. How wrong he was...pradeep.mallik@timesgroup.com
http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/arti...55087bb0011/What’s-killing-H1N1-patients.html

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 198 (206) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 198 (206) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Swine flu: Two more die, toll rises to 208 in Gujarat
STAFF WRITER 21:16 HRS IST
Ahmedabad, Jan 22 (PTI) With two more persons succumbing to swine flu here, the death toll due to the disease rose to 208 in Gujarat, health officials said here today.

Ankit Ashokbhai (20) died of swine flu at municipal-run LG hospital here this morning, while 18-year-old Jagrutiben died at a private hospital yesterday, they said.

Meanwhile, 16 new cases of swine flu have been reported today from Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Junagadh, Vadodara and Jamnagar, the officials said, adding that the total number H1N1 positive cases in the state has reached 1,112.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 200 (208) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 200 (208) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

3 more swine flu deaths in Gujarat, toll rises to 211

STAFF WRITER 21:1 HRS IST
Ahmedabad, Jan 23 (PTI) Swine flu has caused three more deaths in Gujarat, taking the toll in the state to 211 while 21 new cases of H1N1 infection have been reported, Health Department officials said.

According to the officials, 25-year-old Rakesh Varma died of swine flu at civil hospital today.

While two persons, Zamila Ahmed (26) at PDU hospital in Rajkot and Laxmiben Vajir (25), at civil hospital here died of swine flu yesterday but their deaths were reported today.

The officials said that so far 211 people died due to the deadly virus while 1,133 positive cases have been reported.

New cases were reported from Ahmedabad, Palanpur, Bhuj, Vadodara, Rajkot, Junagadh, Karamsad and Amreli.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 203 (211) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 203 (211) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Police 'recover' body of suspected swine flu victim
TNN, 24 January 2010, 03:03am ISTText Size:|Topics:Swine flu
H1N1

AHMEDABAD: In a bizarre incident, the Civil Hospital authorities had to seek assistance of Meghaninagar police to recover the body of a suspected swine flu victim from the deceased's relatives. The family had refused to follow the set procedure for swine flu and taken the body back home.

Late in the night on Friday, Meghaninagar police had to run from pillar to post after the relatives rushed back home with the body of Dr Ramkeval Gupta, who died on Friday evening.

According to Gupta's family, he was taken to the Civil Hospital on Friday afternoon after he complaint of breathlessness. Gupta, a resident of Laxminagar society in Maninagar and a doctor himself, was suffering from tuberculosis for the past one year. The family informed the doctors at the hospital about the same, but Gupta was sent to isolation ward as a suspected swine flu patient.

The family alleged that instead of treating him, the doctors wasted time in taking blood samples and such things. The family was asked to contact the trauma centre which had referred the patient to the swine flu ward.

Even as Mahesh Gupta, son of Ramkeval Gupta, rushed to the trauma ward, with the doctors yet to decide the possible course of treatment, Ramkeval breathed his last. The family then took the body back to their residence in Laxminagar society.

Mahesh alleged that the hospital doctor wasted time in conducted tests instead of providing treatment, even though he was informed that it was a tuberculosis case.
The family took the body back to their resident at about 10 pm. As the family reached and was informing their relatives, police inspector RD Yadav rushed to the Laxminagar society and took the body back to the civil hospital. The body then was kept in the cold storage till it was finally handed back to the family on Saturday afternoon, when swine flu test report came negative.

Superintendent of Civil Hospital, MM Prabhakar, said, "The deceased patient was a suspected case of swine flu which later turned out to be negative. But according to the set protocol, certain guidelines are to be followed before cremation even in suspected case. However, the relatives were not convinced and they took the dead body along. We had to ask for police intervention after the family refused to adhere to our request," added he. However, he refuted the charges of mismanagement at the Civil Hospital.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...cted-swine-flu-victim/articleshow/5493701.cms

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 203 (211) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 203 (211) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

2 more swine flu deaths in Gujarat, toll reaches 213

STAFF WRITER 20:13 HRS IST
Ahmedabad, Jan 24 (PTI) Two persons died of swine flu in Gujarat today taking the death toll so far to 213, while 11 new cases were reported from different parts of the state.

According to health department officials, Anand Mavjibhai (32) died of swine flu at PDU hospital in Rajkot while Pratap Gandabhai (35) died at general hospital in Bhavnagar.

In all 213 persons have died due to H1N1 virus while 1,144 people have tested positive with the infectious disease.

Today, new cases were reported from Vadodara,Junagadh, Jamnagar, Rajkot and Ahmedabad.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 205 (213) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 205 (213) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Three die of swine flu in Guj, death toll reaches 216

STAFF WRITER 20:34 HRS IST
Ahmedabad, Jan 25 (PTI) Swine flu has claimed three lives in Gujarat, taking the toll due to the deadly virus to 216 in the state, health officials said today.

Eleven fresh cases have also been reported, they said, adding so far, 1,155 people have tested positive of the virus.

20-year-old Kokilaben Chhaganbhai died at civil hospital in Ahmedabad today while two persons -- Rudi Bharwad (30) and Gulabbhai Vidhalani (52) -- died of swine flu at SSG hospital, Vadodara and general hospital in Jamnagar, respectively.

Bharwad and Vidhlani died yesterday.

Meanwhile, fresh cases of swine flu were reported from Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Rajkot, Anand and Vadodara.
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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Toll reaches 208 (216) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Re: Toll reaches 208 (216) Gujarat (including Rajasthan natives)

Six more die of swine flu in Gujarat, 222 dead

STAFF WRITER 15:9 HRS IST
Ahmedabad, Jan 27 (PTI) Swine flu has claimed six more lives in Gujarat, taking the toll due to the deadly virus to 222 in the state, health officials said here today.

21 fresh cases have also been reported, they said.

According to the officials S K Bhatnagar and Suresh Patel both aged 54 years, died due to swine flu in Vadodara civil hospital yesterday.

Jyotsna Mahendrabhai (40) from Rajkot and Hansa Rani (60) from Ahmedabad also succumbed to the H1N1 infection, they said, adding that Sarvottam Patel (45) from Ahmedabad died on Monday but was reported today.

Death of Sagar Narottam (22) who had died at the Civil hospital in Rajkot on January 22, was also reported today.

The 21 new cases of positive H1N1 infection were reported from different districts of the state which include Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Anand, Surat, Rajkot, Amreli, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Banaskantha and Kutch.
http://www.ptinews.com/news/487108_Six-more-die-of-swine-flu-in-Gujarat--222-dead