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3 suspected to have H1N1, 2 quarantined
TNN, Jun 29, 2010, 01.39am IST

CHENNAI: Two people were quarantined at the Government General Hospital and one person admitted to the Communicable Diseases Hospital in Tondiarpet on the suspicion that they suffer from A(H1N1) flu. Their nasal samples and throat swabs have been sent for testing and the results are expected on Tuesday.

Of the three patients, two men and one woman are from Anna Nagar, Port Trust and Thiruvanmiyur respectively. One of them had travelled to Andhra Pradesh, where cases of A(H1N1) have been reported in isolated pockets. The state health department has called for a meeting of civic bodies and municipalities to discuss strategies for early diagnosis and treatment.

The state has already vaccinated over 18,000 frontline healthcare workers, including doctors, nurses and paramedics. "We want to sensitise doctor and paramedics. This time we will avoid screening in public places or closing down schools," said health secretary VK Subburaj.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...e-H1N1-2-quarantined-/articleshow/6103604.cms

 

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21 swine flu cases in Tamil Nadu

STAFF WRITER 16:7 HRS IST
Chennai, Jun 29 (PTI) As many as 21 swine flu cases have been reported in Tamil Nadu and preventive measures were taken against spread of H1N1 virus, State Health Minister M R K Panneerselvam said today.



"In Tamil Nadu, 21 persons, who were affected by H1NI, were admitted and getting treatment in various hospitals," he told reporters after holding a meeting with state health officials.



Medical teams have been formed in the bordering areas to screen passengers coming from neighbouring states.

Adequate stocks of Tamiflu tablets were available in all the districts of the state, he said.



People were advised to report to nearby government hospitals if they have swine flu symptoms like cold, fever and body pain, the minister said.



Private hospitals and clinics have been advised to isolate people with flu symptoms and treat them separately and inform local health officials and public health directorate, he added.
http://ptinews.com/news/750396_21-swine-flu-cases-in-Tamil-Nadu

 

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Swine flu: 3 cases in city, 1 dead in Thanjavur

G SaravananFirst Published : 29 Jun 2010 04:14:38 AM ISTLast Updated : 29 Jun 2010 04:09:13 PM IST

CHENNAI: After a gap of about 10 months, three suspected cases of swine flu (AH1N1) have been reported in the city. A senior public health official from Chennai Corporation confirmed the three suspected cases and alerted schools and colleges in its limit to screen students who had visited Kerala recently.


Reports said one man died in Thanjavur on June 26 and three suspected cases were reported in Chennai. The first case was reported from Chennai Port Trust Hospital where a 24 year old, who returned from Trivandrum recently, was admitted with high fever more than 10 days ago.

The second suspected swine flu case was a middle aged woman and the third, a youth from suburban Avadi. The 24 year old was admitted to GH from Port Trust Hospital. Speaking to Express, a Port Trust Hospital official said that the youth was hurriedly shifted to Government General Hospital on June 25 without citing any reason.

"Our suspicion that swine flu could be the reason for his sudden transfer gained ground on Monday when a senior medical officer of Port Trust Hospital asked us to undergo mandatory screening for any infection and advised all of us to get vaccinated," a middle level health official of the hospital said.

The ward in Port Trust Hospital where the youth was admitted before being moved to GH was sanitized on Monday morning and access to the room was restricted.
http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/swine-flu-3-cases-in-city-1-dead-in-thanjavur/185403.html

 

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Upsurge in A(H1N1) cases in the State
Special Correspondent
The Public Health authorities in the State are concerned at the upsurge in the number of A(H1N1) cases after a clear downswing in the initial months of 2010.

Twenty-one fresh cases of A(H1N1) infections were recorded in the last couple of months alone, Health Minister MRK Panneerselvam said.

In May and June, 21 cases of A(H1N1) were confirmed, 2 in the first month and 19 in the next, according to health officials. This was after the lull of the first four months from January this year. Of these, 14 cases are in Kanyakumari, three are from Chennai, two from Tiruvallur, and one from Nagapattinam, Director of Public Health R.T. Porkaipandian informed.

Mr. Panneerselvam refuted allegations that a death had been recorded in the State, saying that all those who were detected with A(H1N1) were given doses of Tamiflu and were said to be stable.

?The main reason for the spurt in infections is the high incidence in the neighbouring districts of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala,? Dr. Pandian said. With a significant amount of inter-State travel, especially with porous borders in the north and south, the case load in Tamil Nadu had risen. This was the reason why the maximum number of cases was in Kanyakumari district, east of Kerala, he added.

At a meeting of all health officials in the State on Tuesday, it was resolved to intensify surveillance and subject all suspect cases to throat and nose swab testing for A(H1N1). The loophole in the system was identified as the private medical practitioner, as suspicion of A(H1N1) must begin even when the first symptoms are manifest. Awareness would be created among them to raise their level of suspicion and send referrals for testing and treatment to government hospitals.

A special team has been sent to Kanyakumari district to stop further spread of the virus. Inter-State screening had also been taken up, Dr. Pandian said.

Special Correspondent from Thanjavur reports:

The test results of Samsun Hudha (60) from Nagapattinam who was admitted to a private hospital here on June 22 and who died on June 26 due to a heart attack, turned out positive for A(H1N1).

According to Dr. Mathivanan, Deputy Director of Health, Thanjavur, he was admitted for treatment for heart failure. The doctor treating him had sent nasal swabs to the lab as a matter of routine, since all tests were performed on him.

Dr. Mathivanan said the patient had no symptoms of A(H1N1) other than respiratory distress which was actually caused by his heart condition. As a precautionary measure, those who came in contact with him, his relatives and paramedical staff who treated him are kept under observation as swine flu infection will be known in a week's time.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Chennai/article492369.ece

 

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15 suspected H1N1 cases in Kanyakumari



NAGERCOIL: Fifteen suspected swine flu cases have been reported at the Kanyakumari Medical College Hospital since January and of them only three cases tested positive.

Of the three cases, two were infants and the two women house surgeons and a male surgeon, who were treating them were also identified as having symptoms of swine flu. Their swab tests have confirmed it and the house surgeons were treated as out patients.

Deputy Director of Health Madhusoodhanan while talking to Express said that although the Health Help Desks (HHD), set up at five places in the district, had reported many cases with symptoms of fever, the swab test results had been negative. ?During weekends, we are testing most of the construction workers returning from Kerala through Kaliyakkavilai. In the surveillance tests conducted in coastal villages, seven malaria positive cases were identified and have been treated?, he added.

Meanwhile, a doctor on the condition of anonymity said that sufficient equipment and laboratories were not available in rural government hospitals for testing such cases. The government should also provide sufficient swine flu prevention vaccines to doctors and other health workers treating patients with swine flu symptoms on a war footing, he urged. He also pointed out that a border district like Kanyakumari needed facilities to do the swab test.

?Some days back, four cases were identified with symptoms of swine flu from Marthandam region and were sent to private and rural government hospitals. Among them, a 23-year-old pregnant lady died on the third day of treatment, I haven?t seen her throat swab result, but I strongly believe that she might have died because of swine flu,? said the doctor. He also said that most of the health workers were afraid to treat such patients and were going on leave.

http://expressbuzz.com/states/tamilnadu/15-suspected-h1n1-cases-in-kanyakumari/185680.html

 

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Three More Swine Flu Cases Confirmed in Kanyakumari
Submitted by Kamilah Qasimi on Wed, 06/30/2010 - 13:20 FeaturedTNMHealth
Three swine flu cases, out of the 15 suspected, at the Kanyakumari Medical College Hospital have been tested positive. These cases had been filing since the month of January. Two of these three cases tested positive, are in the infants.

On a sadder note, the three surgeons, two women house surgeons and one male surgeon, who were treating these patients, have also been found with the symptoms of swine flu. After their mop tests were confirmed, they have been kept as out patients and are now on treatment.

Several other cases were also reported in the district at the Help Desks (HHD), which have been located across the region, but the swab tests proved all of them negative. But complaints have also risen up regarding the shortage of adequate equipment and laboratories in many rural Government hospitals, for testing these cases.

Deputy Director of Health Madhusoodhanan said, ?During weekends, we are testing most of the construction workers returning from Kerala through Kaliyakkavilai. In the surveillance tests conducted in coastal villages, seven malaria positive cases were identified and have been treated?.

It has also been suggested that in addition to the equipments for testing, the care takers and the doctors treating the patients with swine flu, must also be provided with sufficient vaccines to prevent the spread of the virus.
http://topnews.ae/content/22647-three-more-swine-flu-cases-confirmed-kanyakumari

 

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Two fresh cases of swine flu in Kovai



COIMBATORE: Two fresh cases of swine flu were reported here on Friday. Both are college students hailing from Kerala.

Randu (21) and Vyshnav (18), studying at a private college on Avinashi Road, had arrived here after spending their holidays in Kerala.

They were given Tamiflu tablets and have been quarantined at a special ward at the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH).

Randu was admitted at a private hospital and was later referred to the CMCH after his swab tests confirmed the presence of the H1N1 virus. "Randu was admitted on Wednesday, while the other boy was admitted on Thursday midnight," resident medical officer Sivaprakasam said.

He added, "Both the students are now in a stable condition and are progressing well. They will be discharged after a few more days. In Coimbatore, the last swine flu case was reported in the first week of June when a 36yearold woman from Erode and a 25yearold woman from Pollachi underwent treatment at the government hospital."

Sivaprakasam said the prevailing cold weather was conducive to the spread of the virus.

"However, doctors are well prepared to meet the situation with adequate medical facilities," he said.

Meanwhile, doctors at the CMCH, considered to be a high risk group, were vaccination against swine flu.

A total of 900 swine flu cases have been reported in Coimbatore since the first case in May 2009.

Deputy director of the directorate of public health and preventive medicine, S Senthil Kumar, said the family members of the two boys had been screened and they had tested negative.

Similarly, around 200 students and staff of the college underwent screening and they too did not show any symptoms of having contracted the infection.

However, a second phase of screening will be carried out on the students by a special team on Saturday.

"There is no need to worry as the two affected students did not attend the college and there were no chances of spreading to other students through them," he said.

Senthil Kumar said medical checkposts, put up on the State borders during the Tamil meet to screen people entering the city, would continue to function.

http://expressbuzz.com/states/tamilnadu/two-fresh-cases-of-swine-flu-in-kovai/186580.html

 

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Woman tests positive for swine flu
July 7th, 2010
DC Correspondent

Madurai: A 27-year-old woman has tested positive for AH1N1 influenza in Madurai while five of her relatives are suspected to have been infected with the virus.
Sources said the woman, who recently delivered a baby, is showing severe symptoms of the contagion and is undergoing treatment at an isolation ward in the GH in Madurai.
Blood samples and a throat swab from her, sent to Kings Institute in Chennai, confirmed that she has swine flu. The patient, who hails from Ilayangudi, was referred to the Government Rajaji hospital, Madurai, by a private hospital in Paramakudi.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/woman-tests-positive-swine-flu-871

 

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Seven more swine flu cases surface




CHENNAI/COIMBATORE: Seven cases of swine flu, six in Coimbatore and one in Chennai, were reported in the State on Friday. A total of six people infected with A(H1N1) influenza were under treatment at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on Friday.

Among them two were men, three women and one an eight-year-old girl. Most of these infected ones had either a travel history to Kerala or contact with those who went there.

Meanwhile, in Chennai a 30yearold woman was admitted with symptoms of swine flu to the Communicable Diseases Hospital at Tondiarpet on Friday. Her condition had not been diagnosed at two private hospitals she had previously consulted.As many as 25 confirmed cases of swine flu so far were reported in the State and 16 of them have been discharged from the government hospitals following treatment.

http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/seven-more-swine-flu-cases-surface/188504.html

 

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Youth dies; doctors deny A(H1N1) flu



Staff Reporter

TIRUNELVELI: One of the two youths kept in isolation at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital for the past two days with suspected symptoms of swine flu died on Monday.

However, the hospital administration maintained that T. Ramanathan (30) of Vallivilai near Tiruchendur died of ?lung consolidation,? and not swine flu. As Ramanathan, who had come home for a temple festival from his workplace in Gujarat, and R. Muthuvel (15) of Puththantharuvai, a Bangalore-based sweet stall worker, were carrying symptoms of swine flu, they were isolated and treatment was given to them in a separate ward. Their blood and sputum samples were sent for analysis.

Ramanathan died around 11 a.m. on Monday.

Medical Superintendent Jimla Balachandran told The Hindu that the condition of Muthuvel, ?who has also been admitted with infection and high fever,? was ?stable.?

http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/13/stories/2010071361460700.htm

 

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2 suspected H1N1 deaths in Nellai, Madurai

private company employee, just returned from Gujarat, suspected to be infected with A(H1N1) virus, died at the quarantine cell of Tirunelveli medical college hospital on Monday.

Ramanathan (34) of Vallivilai, near Tiruchendur, in Thoothukudi district, was working in a private company in Gujarat. As he was continuously ill for about a week in Gujarat, Ramanathan returned to his native place and took treatment at the Tirunelveli medical college hospital where they suspected he had swine flu infection and admitted him to the quarantine ward three days ago. His blood sample was sent for confirmation to King?s institute in Chennai.

On Monday morning, his condition became critical and, subsequently, he died. However, the hospital and health department officials denied that Ramanathan died of swine flu but due to bronchial infection, for which he was taking treatment.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/2-suspected-h1n1-deaths-nellai-madurai-245

 

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Info on that second suspected fatality from Arkanoids link;

Meanwhile, swine flu scare has gripped Ilayangudi in Sivagangai district after a 27-year-old woman succumbed to the H1N1 influenza at a private hospital in Madurai on Sunday. Burkha Nisha who delivered a premature baby that died on birth at a private clinic in Paramakudi was admitted to a multi-speciality hospital in Madurai on July 2 after she was suspected to have contracted the virus.

Hospital sources said Nisha was seriously ill and was running high temperature ever since she was admitted and failed to respond to the treatment. Though a doctor who treated her confirmed that the woman succumbed to H1N1 influenza and her organs were in ?good condition,? director of public health Dr.R.T.Porkai Pandiyan claimed that she died of chronic renal failure and not of swine flu.

?The patient had bilateral intensive pneumonia and had respiratory failure despite being put on ventilation and treated for swine flu,? the physician told Deccan Chronicle.

 

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First H1N1 death in state this season confirmed

CHENNAI: The state health department on Tuesday confirmed the death of a 34-year-old man infected with A (H1N1) in Tiruneveli. This is the first death of an H1N1 patient this season, even as five more persons across the state, including two in Chennai, tested positive for the deadly virus. In the past one-and-a-half years, the state had recorded seven deaths due to the virus.

Directorate of public health said Ramanathan died at the Tirunelveli government hospital on Monday. The man, hailing from Tiruchendur had travelled to Gujarat recently and was admitted to a private hospital in Tiruchendur on July 6 with high fever, cold and cough.

He was shifted to a private hospital in Tirunelveli before being referred to the Tirunelveli government hospital on July 11. "His samples were tested and he was found to be infected with A(H1N1),"said director of public health Porkai Pandian.

The directorate has urged doctors to be on high alert with people who come with symptoms of high fever, severe cough, breathlessness and cold. "All our frontline healthcare workers in the government hospitals have been vaccinated. Vaccines are also available for doctors in the private sector. The drugs are available and testing is done in more than a dozen laboratories across the state. If diagnosis is done at the right time we will be able to prevent deaths,"he said.

Two persons in Coimbatore, one patient in Ariyalur and two patients at the Chennai Government general hospital have tested positive for the virus.

On Tuesday, health minister MRK Panneerselvam told reporters that the government was taking all steps to keep the situation under control. "Officials from the public health department visit the areas where infection is reported. People who have had close contact with the infected is also being advised to take preventive doses of the medicine. Those infected are kept under house quarantine and only those requiring hospitalisation are admitted to hospitals,"he said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...this-season-confirmed/articleshow/6164777.cms

 

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Tests confirm flu, state won?t remove blinkers

July 14: The recent swine flu death in Tirunelveli has raised concerns about the validity of the government?s health reporting system, with a throat swab from victim Ramanathan, 34, testing positive for the AH1N1 virus and the government repeatedly denying that he had died of the contagion.

Ramanthan, a native of Vallivilai near Tiruchendur in Thoothukudi district, had been admitted to the isolation ward at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital with suspected swine flu symptoms and succumbed to his illness on Monday.

The hospital denied that the patient had died of swine flu as the tests conducted by the government authorised Vivek Lab at Nagercoil indicated that he did not have the virus.

However, a throat swab from the patient that was sent for testing to the King?s Institute of Preventive Medicine at Guindy in Chennai, a government lab, found that Ramanathan was AH1N1 positive.

Though sources at Kings Institute confirmed that the test results were faxed to the Tirunelveli Government Hospital at 6 pm on Monday, the deputy director of public health (DDH), Tirunelveli district, Meeran Moideen checked the report only on Wednesday. ?I did not go to my office on Tuesday as I was caught up in meetings with the district collector and failed to see the fax from King?s Institute,? Mr Moideen told DC.

Painting a poor picture of the coordination between officials, neither the Tirunelveli district administration nor the deputy director of public health informed their counterparts in Thoothukudi district about the positive AH1N1 results, so Ramanathan?s family and those he was in close contact with have not been screened for the virus.

Health secretary V.K. Subburaj ruled out the possibility that there had been a ?cover up? of swine flu deaths in the state. ?There are no facts to be suppressed and we can?t suppress facts even if we wanted to,? he told DC.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/tests-confirm-flu-state-won’t-remove-blinkers-900

 

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TN health department lax on swine flu




CHENNAI: Unlike last year, when steps were taken to control the spread of Swine flu, the TN health department, this year, has not only been slow in taking precautionary measures but there is also no transparency in flu-related data handed out by officials.

There has been no checking for suspected flu symptoms in passengers at railway stations, bus stands and airports. The Swine flu portal set up by the health department has not been updated. It has a list of status of affected people only upto July 2009.

Figures given by the health department on Swine flu remain static at 25 confirmed cases, which was the number two weeks ago. Since then, there have been two suspected flu deaths, one each in Tirunelveli and Madurai. But, according to sources, there have been at least seven confirmed cases of Swine flu in the Government General Hospital and the Communicable Diseases hospital at Tondiarpet in the city alone.

While there has been an upsurge in suspected cases admitted at the government hospital in Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli, as told by officials in the districts, no major steps have been taken except for a few medical camps held at districts bordering Kerala.

A virologist of a government hospitals said that with the rainy season on, there were more suspected Swine flu cases turning up at hospitals.

http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/tn-health-department-lax-on-swine-flu/190151.html

 

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H1N1 cases expose state’s stand July 24th, 2010
DC Correspondent Share Buzz up!Chennai, July 23: The state government continues to underplay the threat of swine flu in Tamil Nadu, one of the worst affected state in India in the second wave of the pandemic. While the health department has publicly acknowledged two deaths, and gone on record that 50 cases of infection have been reported in the state since the beginning of 2010, internal data available with DC shows that there have been six deaths and 156 A(H1N1) patients since January.
According to the status report filed by the directorate of public health on July 19, there were 37 swine flu positive cases in Chennai corporation, 36 in Coimbatore, and 31 in Nagercoil, the epicentres of the infection. Of the six deaths, two were reported from Nagercoil, and one each from Kovai, Nagapattinam, Sivagangai and Poonamallee.

The two indigenous vaccines that have been available for over a month now, have sold nearly 70,000 doses. It provides protection from the infection for a year.

“We have sold 50,000 doses so far, mostly in the border districts, and a have a stock of 50,000 more doses, which will expire in August. In Chennai, about 9,000 people have taken the preventive shot, as some of the doctors in private hospitals have started prescribing the vaccine,” says Mr D. Prakash, sales manager of the Pune-based Serum institute of India that is selling its vaccine for Rs 127.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/h1n1-cases-expose-state’s-stand-120

Comment: Similar undercounting was apparant last year. Flutrackers database contains details on 25 confirmed and suspected fatal cases from Tamil Nadu.

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With no takers to H1N1 vaccine, govt to start special clinic

CHENNAI: More than two months after H1N1 vaccines entered the city market and two weeks after the state government advised people to vaccinate themselves against the virus, the health department is now considering an exclusive H1N1 vaccination centre as not many people have made use of the vaccine.

"We assume that people don't go in for vaccination as there are not many centres offering them. We are planning to set up a clinic exclusively for H1N1 vaccination. Since we are planning to do bulk purchases, we are also talking to pharmaceutical companies to provide the drug at a reduced cost," said health secretary VK Subburaj. The vaccine clinic will be set up in the King Institute of Preventive Medicine, near the testing laboratory for the virus.

The health department had recommended two indigenous vaccines a nasal spray and another injectable, which is sold at Rs 150 and Rs 180. However, pharmacies in the city have not been selling more than 10 vials a month. The unscientific assumption that H1N1 is no longer in the air, and fear of side-effects are cited as the main reasons for this lukewarm public response to the vaccine. The vaccines have an efficacy up to one year. "This is so far the best way to prevent the infection. The cost of testing and treatment for the virus is more than Rs 10,000," said Dr P Gunasekaran, deputy director King Institute of Preventive Medicine.

According to government figures, 1,247 people tested positive for H1N1 and 89 died across the country in the last one week. While 19,000 frontline health workers in the government hospitals were vaccinated with supplies from the Union health ministry, several private hospitals are yet to protect their staff against the virus. Serum Institute of India, manufacturer of the nasal vaccine Nasovac, admits that the awareness about the vaccine is low. "Some colleges like PSG Institute of Medical Sciences, Coimbatore, schools like St Judes Residential School, Kothagiri, and corporate houses like Hyundai, L&T Infotech, L&T ECC, Infosys Technologies, Taj Group of Hotels, Apollo Hospitals, Sri Ramachandra University, Sundaram Medical Foundation and TVS Groups have ensured that their staff and students are vaccinated. But this number is low considering the rate of infection," said KP Ajayakumar, manager, Serum Institute.

Several pharma shops like Apollo Pharmacy, Mediplus, Narayanappa Pharmacy and Muthu Medicals said they had not received bulk orders from hospitals or corporates. "There are times when I have asked my customers to vaccinate themselves ahead of their trips abroad. Many say they fear side-effects. We don't sell more than four vials a month," said M Paruthi, who manages one of the medical shops in Virugambakkam.

Doctors strongly advise vaccination as the virus is still in the air and could make a pandemic comeback any time. "Side-effects like headache, nausea, muscle ache and bruising caused by injectible vaccines are negligible compared to effects of the disease," he said.

Read more: With no takers to H1N1 vaccine, govt to start special clinic - Chennai - City - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-clinic/articleshow/6477177.cms#ixzz0yLdYGyrB

 

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Swine flu kills Chennai-based DGM of bank

Express News ServiceFirst Published : 08 Sep 2010 03:14:23 AM ISTLast Updated :


COIMBATORE: After a lull for nearly three months, fresh cases of swine flu are being reported from the district here.


A 48-year-old man died of A(H1N1) influenza on the wee hours of Tuesday here and four others who were tested positive have been admitted to the isolation ward at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

Shanmugam, working as a deputy general manager in a public sector bank in Chennai, was brought to CMCH on Monday midnight after he was tested positive for swine flu at a private hospital where he was undergoing treatment for respiratory track infection for past one week. Shanmugam was staying at a relative?s house here. A source in the hospital said that Shanmugam was diagnosed to be in high risk category, which led to his sudden death.

?Both his kidneys were transplanted ones and he was also suffering from diabetes. He belonged to the high risk category C,? said Sivaprakasam, RMO, CMCH.

Shanmugan was undergoing treatment at a private hospital for respiratory track infection. Suspecting that Shanmugam might have been infected with the A(H1N1) influenza, the doctors at the private hospital conducted tests for the swine flu and found it to be positive. They referred him to the CMCH where he was admitted at the isolation ward at Monday 11.30 p.m in a critical state and sustained on ventilation.

In spite of the efforts of the doctors, he died at the hospital within 45 minutes. Sivaprakasam told Express that four cases of swine flu has been reported in the last three days at the hospital other than that of Shanmugam.

One case was tested positive on Sunday, two cases on Monday and one on Tuesday. Two of the affected are children. However, the condition of all four are stable, the medical officer said
http://expressbuzz.com/states/tamilnadu/swine-flu-kills-chennai-based-dgm-of-bank/204826.html

 

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Swine flu claims another life

Chennai, Sep 10 (PTI) A 39-year-old man died of swine flu at the Government General Hospital here today, officials said.Mohanavel, Assistant Public Relations Officer of the Tamil Nadu government, breathed his last this morning, J Mohanasundaram, Dean, GGH, told PTI.He was admitted to the hospital a few days back after he underwent treatment at a private hospital, Mohanasundaram said.Early this week, a 48-year-old Deputy General Manager of a nationalised bank here had died of swine flue at Coimbatore.


http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/swine-flu-claims-another-life/310208.html

 

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Swine flu claims life of 31-yr-old assistant PRO



CHENNAI: The highly infectious H1N1 virus on Friday morning claimed the life of 31-year-old K P Mohanavelu, Assistant Public Relations Officer of the Information Department at the State Secretariat. He was being treated for swine flu at the Government General Hospital here.

Earlier, Mohanavelu was being treated at a private hospital in Triplicane after he reportedly sought medical help following lasting fever for more than a week. After five days of treatment he was discharged, following which he developed respiratory complications and was readmitted, said Dr J Mohanasundaram, Dean, Madras Medical College.

?Doctors suspected symptoms of swine flu on readmission and his throat swab analysis tested positive. Then he was admitted to GGH on Tuesday with severe chest congestion,? Dr Mohanasundaram said.

?His condition was critical when he was bought here and it was a case of last minute diagnosis,? he said.

However the doctor assured that there was no cause for panic among the general public as ?swine flu cases in the city are sporadic?.

Mohanavelu had been working relentlessly in spite of being unwell. He had had fever for almost 10 days before he even consulted the private hospital, Dr Mohanasundaram said. He must have interacted with people from other states who had contracted the flu, he said.

Following Mohanavelu?s death, four of his colleagues in the Secretariat came forward to get themselves tested for swine flu, Dr C Veni, Medical Superintendent, GGH said. Mohanavelu?s family members are also being tested, she added.

Four positive cases are presently under treatment at the GH.

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