58-year-old woman first casualty of swine flu in Gurugram district
According to officials of the district health department, the woman was admitted on January 4 in a private hospital in the city with shortness of breath, a typical symptom of the influenza. She died later due to further complications.
GURGAON Updated: Feb 01, 2019 11:15 IST
HT Correspondent
Hindustan Times, Gurugram
A 58-year-old woman suffering from swine flu died in Gurugram on January 20, confirmed reports by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in Delhi on Thursday. This was the first confirmed death due to the H1N1 influenza in Gurugram district this season.
According to officials of the district health department, the woman was admitted on January 4 in a private hospital in the city with shortness of breath, a typical symptom of the influenza. She died later due to further complications, such as acute respiratory distress syndrome causing inflammation of the lungs, hypertension, and H1N1-induced pneumonia.
Earlier, on January 17, a 49-year-old man, a resident of Hayatpur village in the district, was suspected to have succumbed to the influenza, health department officials said. However, officials could not confirm if the death was due to swine flu, as the private hospital where he was admitted didn?t collect blood samples to send to the NCDC for confirmation.
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