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MUMBAI: The state is planning a seminar during which doctors who treated swine flu patients in Mumbai and Pune will share their experiences and <table style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 4px;" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td id="bellyad"><iframe src="http://adstil.indiatimes.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_sx.ads/www.timesofindia.com/TOI2009_City_Mumbai/index.html/1516686421@Right3?" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" bordercolor="#000000" frameborder="0" height="250" scrolling="no" width="300"> </iframe>
</td></tr></tbody></table><table class="cnt" style="margin: 0pt 10px 0pt 0pt; clear: both;" align="left" width="200"></table> discuss strategies dealing with prevention and treatment. The seminar will also be an audit of sorts of the 47 swine flu deaths in Maharashtra.
The comprehensive half-day seminar will be held at the Directorate of Medical Education & Research in Mumbai either on Saturday or Sunday, additional chief secretary (health) Sharwaree Gokhale announced on Thursday.
In the debriefing session, doctors are expected to discuss the treatment given to each patient and how the patient responded to the treatment. The doctors will also discuss the reasons a few patients died after receiving treatment, Gokhale said. The state hopes that information from the seminar will help analyse H1N1 deaths. Gokhale said, "We will exchange our findings with the Centre.''
According to a state government report, from August 3, when the first swine flu death was reported in India, to August 26 over 4.63 lakh patients have been screened in the state. Of these, 289 patients (214 suspect and 75 positive cases) are still being treated in various hospitals. Eight patients are on ventilators, one of them in Mumbai, Gokhale said.
When asked if the situation is under control, Gokhale said that in Mumbai the outbreak has reached a plateau, but in Pune there are sporadic deaths. "I will never say that the situation is under control. I cannot relax my guards (medical staff) and will not allow them to relax too,'' she added.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...n-swine-flu-treatment/articleshow/4942777.cms
</td></tr></tbody></table><table class="cnt" style="margin: 0pt 10px 0pt 0pt; clear: both;" align="left" width="200"></table> discuss strategies dealing with prevention and treatment. The seminar will also be an audit of sorts of the 47 swine flu deaths in Maharashtra.
The comprehensive half-day seminar will be held at the Directorate of Medical Education & Research in Mumbai either on Saturday or Sunday, additional chief secretary (health) Sharwaree Gokhale announced on Thursday.
In the debriefing session, doctors are expected to discuss the treatment given to each patient and how the patient responded to the treatment. The doctors will also discuss the reasons a few patients died after receiving treatment, Gokhale said. The state hopes that information from the seminar will help analyse H1N1 deaths. Gokhale said, "We will exchange our findings with the Centre.''
According to a state government report, from August 3, when the first swine flu death was reported in India, to August 26 over 4.63 lakh patients have been screened in the state. Of these, 289 patients (214 suspect and 75 positive cases) are still being treated in various hospitals. Eight patients are on ventilators, one of them in Mumbai, Gokhale said.
When asked if the situation is under control, Gokhale said that in Mumbai the outbreak has reached a plateau, but in Pune there are sporadic deaths. "I will never say that the situation is under control. I cannot relax my guards (medical staff) and will not allow them to relax too,'' she added.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...n-swine-flu-treatment/articleshow/4942777.cms