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Tracking Fatalities in Mumbai

Ronan Kelly

Ronan Kelly

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Swine flu claims three more lives, toll rises to 17
Pratibha Masand, TNN 9 September 2009, 03:22am IST


MUMBAI: Swine flu has claimed three more lives in two days, taking the death toll to 17.


While a 20-year-old pregnant woman died at 11 pm on Sunday, another 5-year-old boy succumbed to the H1N1 virus at 2:30 pm on Tuesday. Another 50-year-old woman also died in Vashi on Tuesday night.

Sapna Kalwe (20), the 15th victim in the city, was in the last month of her pregnancy. On August 29, she was admitted to Holy Spirit Hospital in Andheri (E) with high fever and cold and cough. "We took her swab test and started giving her Tamiflu on September 2. The same day, she gave birth to a stillborn baby. By then, she had developed Acute Respirational Distress Syndrome (ARDS),'' said a hospital authority. "She tested positive for H1N1 even though she was given a full course of Tamiflu.''

The 16th victim, 5-year-old Faizan from Jari Mari slum in Saki Naka, was admitted to Kasturba Hospital on September 3. His swab test was taken and his Tamiflu course was started on the same day. "But his lungs were filled with water and he had developed other complications as well,'' said executive health officer of BMC Jairaj Thanekar. On Saturday, Faizan was shifted to Nair Hospital where he was kept on ventilator but he died on Tuesday.

A 50-year-old woman Bharti Jaisinghania died at the Vashi municipal hospital on Tuesday evening. Jaisinghania, a resident of Sector 4 in New Panvel, was hospitalised on September 3 with swine flu symptoms. Two days later, she tested positive for H1N1 and despite efforts on the part of the doctors, she died on Tuesday. Health officer of Navi Mumbai municipal corporation Deepak Paropkari confirmed the death.
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This is another fatality from 2 days later. I have no idea why they are giving a lower total than the previous post.

Woman succumbs to swine flu, toll rises to 15 in Mumbai


Mumbai, Sept 11 (PTI) A 35-year-old woman today succumbed to swine flu at a government hospital here, taking the death toll due to the disease to 15 in the city, a top civic official said.
Fatima, a resident of Bhiwandi in neighbouring Thane district, was having swine flu symptoms since last 20 days, additional municipal commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar said.

"She died this afternoon at Nair hospital due to swine flu. She had fever, cough and cold for 20 days. The lady was also a patient of hypertension and diabetes," Mhaiskar said.

"Fatima was earlier admitted to a Thane-based private hospital after she tested positive for H1N1 virus on September 7. On September 8, she was transferred to Nair hospital where she was given Tamiflu immediately," she said.
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Post-Ganpati, H1N1 deaths in state soar
Sanjeev Shivadekar, TNN 12 September 2009, 03:01am IST

MUMBAI: With swine flu claiming 20 lives in the state in the last 8 days, the government health machinery is once again on high alert. Additional
chief secretary (health) Sharwaree Gokhale admitted at a press meet on Friday that the situation was ?grim??.

Officials attribute the sudden spurt in deaths to a change in weather as well as the intermingling of huge crowds at the Ganpati festival, a fear which the government had expressed weeks ago. On September 3, the number of deaths in the state was 57, but after the Ganpati immersion, 20 more people succumbed, taking the total death toll to 77 on Friday. The majority of deaths are in the urban areas of Pune and Mumbai. ?Our fear has come true,?? Gokhale said.

Flu forces closure of Bandra school

Arya Vidya Mandir School in Bandra has been shut until September 18 after two students tested positive for swine flu on Friday. Authorities said the school would be fumigated before
it is reopened.

Bhiwandi woman dies, city toll 18

A 35-year-old Bhiwandi woman, Fatima Momin, has become Mumbai?s 18th swine flu victim. Momin, who had a history of diabetes and hypertension, died at Nair Hospital, where she was rushed in a critical state, on Friday.
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Mumbai swine flu toll rises to 18
Sanjeev Shivadekar , TNN 12 September 2009, 02:52am IST


MUMBAI: Even as the city's swine flu toll touched 18 on Friday with a Bhiwandi resident, Fatima Momin, becoming the latest victim, 106 people were
admitted in a single day, Thursday, to isolation facilities across the state.

Momin, who had a history of diabetes and hypertension, was admitted to three hospitals before she was brought on Tuesday to civic-run Nair Hospital where she died. There was some confusion over another death that took place in civic-run Kasturba Hospital on Thursday. Additional secretary (health) Sharwaree Gokhale told reporters on Friday that "there was one death in Kasturba Hospital reported on Thursday but it has not been included in the state toll yet as we are still awaiting the diagnostic report.'' However, civic officials told TOI that the patient had died of dengue haemorrhagic fever.

According to the civic health records, 35-year-old Momin had a cough and cold for 20 days before she was admitted to Criticare Hospital in Thane on September 6. The hospital authorities sent her swab samples for testing to Ranbaxy Laboratory and got the H1N1-positive status a day later, said Dr Santosh Rathi of Criticare Hospital. "We moved her to Kasturba the next day,'' he said, adding that she had developed pneumonia.

However, as she was in a critical state by the time she reached Kasturba, Momin was moved to the Nair Hospital swine flu ICU where she died on Friday, said civic officials. "She was given Tamiflu as well as antibiotics. But she had developed severe bacterial infection and was also a known case of hypertension and diabetes,'' said Dr J Thanekar, executive health officer of the BMC.

The number of patients on ventilators in Mumbai and Pune put together have gone up to 19 from last week's figure of 12. "A total of 12 patients are on ventilators in Mumbai and seven in Pune,'' Gokhale said. Schools in Lonavala have decided to stay closed till September 19 after the detection of fresh H1N1 cases.

However, Gokhale reiterated that most of the swine flu deaths in the state were due to negligence on the part of patients or medical history like respiratory problems, blood pressure and other illness. "Around 95 per cent of the patients who succumbed to the viral infection were swine flu cases who were administered Tamiflu 36 hours after the infection,'' Gokhale added.

According to hospital sources, of the total swine flu deaths, around four to five were HIV-positive. "To deal with such patients, the government has instructed doctors to follow a separate protocol,'' said a senior doctor from the state health department.

Incidentally, the government has also informed doctors to adopt a new protocol in dealing with pregnant women who are tested or suspected to have swine flu. Admitting that the state health department has given such instructions, Gokhale said, "We have decided to save the mothers.'' The website of KEM hospital has been uploaded with the measures that private doctors should follow while dealing with the patients if they find them to be H1N1 suspect, she added.
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Mumbai total at 20

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Two infants die of swine flu, toll 20
Sukhada Tatke, TNN 13 September 2009, 03:20am IST
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MUMBAI: In what is being termed as a shocking lapse on the part of a renowned paediatric hospital in the city, two infants died of swine flu within
hours of each other on Saturday.

The civic authorities immediately instituted an inquiry into the delay in administering Tamiflu to both children who were admitted to B J Wadia Children's Hospital in Parel for about a week before being transferred to other hospitals.

Both eight-month-old Atharva Dongre and one-year-old Gaurav Ghai died within a few hours of being transferred from Wadia hospital on Friday. The administrators of Wadia Hospital were unavailable for comment despite repeated attempts.

The infants had respiratory distress and were on ventilator while at Wadia hospital before their throat swab samples were sent for swine-flu testing. Once they tested positive, Atharva and Gaurav were transferred to Nair Hospital's swine-flu ICU near Mumbai Central and Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital in Powai where they died.

The infants' deaths have taken the city's toll to 20.

"Prima facie, it appears that there was a delay in administering the drug. At a time when there is so much awareness about Tamiflu, we don't understand why it was not given in time,'' said additional municipal commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar. "We have asked Dr Sanjay Oak, director of medical education and research, to ask the Wadia hospital staff to give their explanation in writing, about the delay in starting treatment,'' she added.

While in the first case, the infant was brought almost a week too late to the civic body's ICU facility, the second child was admitted after four days to Hiranandani hospital. Given the shocking delay in providing Tamilflu to the infants in time, the civic administration has instituted an inquiry to ascertain the reasons.

Dongre was brought to Nair Hospital on Friday in a critical condition. He was admitted to Wadia hospital on September 3. This is where mechanical ventilation was started, albeit four days later, after his having developed Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Although the child's throat swab was collected, the Tamiflu course was not started as is the established protocol.

According to civic officials, the Tamiflu course was finally started only on his admission to Nair Hospital on Friday. But as the patient was already critical, he died within a few hours of admission at 5:15 am.

Gaurav, on the other hand, a resident of Bhiwandi, was admitted to Wadia hospital on September 7 and was subsequently put on ventilator the following day. Throat swabs were also collected on the same day and the reports confirmed that he had tested positive on Friday. On Saturday morning, he was transferred to Hiranandani hospital, where the Tamiflu course was finally started. According to hospital sources, he expired within a couple of hours of being admitted.

According to Dr Sujit Chatterjee, CEO of Hiranandani hospital in Powai, "Gaurav was referred from Wadia hospital in an extremely ill condition. We put him on ventilator and gave him Tamiflu but it was too late.''
 
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Two women succumb to swine flu in Mumbai
STAFF WRITER 23:8 HRS IST
Mumbai, Sep 15 (PTI) Two women have died due to swine flu at a private hospital here, taking the death toll in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region to 22, officials said today.

A 50-year-old woman from Vasai in neighbouring Thane district and a 29-year-old woman from Kandivali succumbed on September 14 and September 12 respectively at Nanavati Hospital in suburban Vile Parle.

"Both patients had tested positive for H1N1 virus and died on Saturday and Monday respectively," Nanavati's Medical Superintendent Dr Ashok Hatolkar said.

One of them, Munira Ujjainwala (50), was earlier admitted to Cardinal Gracious Hospital in Vasai and shifted to Nanavati Hospital on September 12 in a critical condition. Her throat swab was taken the same day and she was immediately given Tamiflu," Hatolkar said.

Ujjainwala, who died yesterday, had hypertension, diabetes and asthma, he said.
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2 more die of swine flu, toll is 22
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A 29-year-old woman, Minal, died on September 12 at Nanawati Hospital. She was admitted to Lifeline Hospital in Malad, with symptoms of cough, cold and fever on September 3 and was later shifted to Nanawati Hospital.

Her throat swab was collected on the September 7 and the report, received a day later, confirmed swine flu. Although a full course of Tamiflu was given, she died on Saturday.

Another woman, 50-year-old Munira succumbed to swine flu on September 14 at Nanawati Hospital. She was rushed to the hospital on September 13, where her throat swab was collected and Tamiflu administered immediately. However, being a patient of hypertension, diabetes and asthama, her condition worsened and she succumbed to the disease.

"Of the 22 swine flu victims in the ctiy, 16 were women, four were kids and two were men," said Thanekar.
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Nine-month-old dies
TNN 18 September 2009, 02:05am IST


MUMBAI: A nine-month-old child from Mankhurd died of swine flu on Thursday, taking the city death toll to 23. The child, Apeksha, was admitted to
KEM Hospital on September 11 with complaints of fever, cold and cough. Three days later, when she developed breathlessness, samples of her throat swabs were sent for H1N1 testing.
"We immediately started Tamiflu on her, without waiting for the results, which came positive 48 hours later,'' said Dr Sanjay Oak, dean of KEM Hospital.

The girl was transferred to Nair Hospital on Wednesday where she died at 4 pm on Thursday. "We are still looking into the reasons for her death,'' he added.
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Mumbai: Swine flu claimed the life of a 9-month-old baby girl on Thursday, taking the toll in the city to 23. This time, the civic-run KEM Hospital staff is under the scanner for not realising for three crucial days that the child was showing symptoms of swine flu.

Apeksha, a resident of Mankhurd and the fifth child in the city to die of swine flu, was suffering from cold and fever since September 9. She was admitted to KEM Hospital on September 11 and was being treated for normal fever.

It was only after she developed breathlessness that doctors sent her throat swabs for testing. "Tamiflu was started the same day and doctors did not wait for her reports to arrive," said dean of KEM Hospital Dr Sanjay Oak.

Apeksha's reports reached the hospital on Wednesday and she was immediately shifted to Nair Hospital ICU. She died on Thursday.

Dr Oak said he was looking into the details of the report to find out if it was a case of negligence. "The child was put on high doses of antibiotics as soon as she was admitted," he said. Her initial symptoms were very vague, he added.

The child developed a patch within two days and was immediately administered Tamiflu. By the time her reports came, she had finished taking Tamiflu for 3 days. "I am still analysing the case and talking to the respective doctors," he said. The child had to be shifted to Nair Hospital as she would have needed isolated ICU.

(with inputs from Surendra Gangan)
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_infant-dies-of-swine-flu-kem-docs-in-the-dock_1291183
 
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Pregnant woman is 24th H1N1 victim
SUKHADA TATKE, TNN 19 September 2009, 05:12am IST

MUMBAI: A woman in the ninth month of her pregnancy died of swine flu on Thursday, taking the toll in and around Mumbai to 24. Neha (25) from
Ghatkopar was admitted to a private hospital for cold and high fever on Tuesday. She was shifted to Rajawadi Hospital and put on a ventilator on Wednesday. Her throat swab was collected the same day and she was put on a course of Tamiflu. The positive test result came on Friday.

Though more men have tested positive for swine flu, more women have succumbed to the disease. Of the 23 swine flu deaths the BMC is counting, more than three-fourths (18) have been women. The data compiled by the BMC's health department revealed that 59% of those who tested positive were men. "Though more men have tested positive, the number of deaths has been more in women, primarily because women have a habit of trying to bear with their problems before actually doing something about them. At first, they ignore a fever thinking it is a minor flu, but the delay becomes crucial,'' said additional municipal commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar.

The analysis of deaths also shows that only three people did not fall in the high-risk category. Nine victims suffered from co-morbidity (underlying conditions already present) such as asthma, respiratory disorders, hypertension and diabetes, four were pregnant, five were infants and one had obesity. Also, it was seen that if Tamiflu was administered within 48 hours of symptoms surfacing, there was almost 100% recovery. Where Tamiflu was given between 48 and 72 hours, there was one death. In one case, the drug was not given at all and the remaining patients were given Tamiflu after 72 hours.
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Two succumb to swine flu in MMR

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Mumbai, Sept 29 (PTI) A pregnant woman and an infant succumbed to swine flu in Mumbai metropolitan region, taking the toll due to the virus to 27, civic officials said today.

Sharda (21), a resident of Bhayander, was suffering from flu-like symptoms and was admitted to a private hospital.

However, her condition worsened and she was transferred to Riddhi Vinayak hospital in Malad, from where she was taken to Kokilaben Ambani hospital, the officials said, adding Sharda died on September 27.

Meanwhile, 11-month-old Jayesh of Raigad district died at the KEM hospital on September 26, they said.

Jayesh was brought to the hospital on September 24 with breathlessness, fever, cold and cough. The boy was ill since past seven days, they said.
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H1N1 kills 3, city braces for 2nd wave
Clara Lewis, TNN 29 September 2009, 11:54pm IST|

MUMBAI: The city and its suburbs registered three deaths due to H1N1 even as the state announced steps to contain a possible second wave of the
swine flu epidemic in winter. The state also presented an analysis of H1N1 deaths that suggested unlike in the West where the elderly were vulnerable people in the productive age group of 16 to 46 were hit worst in Maharashtra.

The city H1N1 update, meanwhile, said that a 22-year-old pregnant woman from Mira-Bhayander, Sharada Bhanushali, passed away on Sunday after spending over 17 days in hospital. An 11-month-old boy, identified only as Jayesh from Neral, died at KEM Hospital on Saturday and four-year-old Aniket Ved died at MGM Hospital in Kamothe on Tuesday, taking the Mumbai Metropolitan Region toll to 30.
BMC chief health officer Jairaj Thanekar said: "Swine flu seems mainly under control but these deaths reveal that vulnerable groups such as children and pregnant women are still susceptible.'' Any fever should not be ignored in these groups, he added.

Additional chief secretary (health) Sharwaree Gokhale, said at a press briefing that the state was educating medical staff, increasing accessibility to Tamiflu (the antiviral drug against H1N1) and buying equipment in a bid to contain a possible second wave of swine flu. "We have approved the sale of Tamiflu at 122 wholesalers and 408 retailers across the state apart from the state and corporation centres that provide the drug,'' she said.

Doctors are being trained and 30 ventilators have already been commissioned in various hospitals-cum-isolation centres across the state. "We are in the process of acquiring 30 more ventilators,'' she said.

The state has registered 123 deaths, with 30 in Mumbai and 62 in Pune.

H1N1 & PRODUCTIVE AGE GROUPS

Gokhale provided a detailed analysis of 117 deaths since August 3. "Of these, 70 were in the 16-45 age group,'' she said. Other groups included 14 children in the 0-5 age group, 10 in the 6-15 age group and 22 in the 46-65 age group. "In Maharashtra, maximum deaths are seen in the productive age group of 15-45 age group. This in a contrast to the Western countries where maximum deaths are seen in the elderly,'' she said.

GENDER DIVIDE

More women than men have fallen prey to H1N1 in the city but state-wide statistics show that H1N1 has claimed an equal number from both sexes. Gokhale provided data of 120 deaths, stating that 69 were men and 51 were women.
DELAY IN TREATMENT

Doctors have held that patients who were started on Tamiflu within 28 hours of onset of symptoms have had a better chance of recovery. Gokhale said that an analysis of 95 deaths on the basis of the time lag between the onset of disease and the date of admission showed that most had turned for help only on the fourth day. "Four deaths occurred on the same day as onset of symptom, 10 after two days, 14 after three days, 26 after four days,'' she said. Eleven deaths occurred after five days of onset of symptoms, nine after six days, 11 after seven days and 14 after eight days.

(Inputs from Malathy Iyer)
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HIV victim succumbs to swine flu in Mumbai

STAFF WRITER 22:26 HRS IST
Mumbai, Sep 30 (PTI) A five-year-old girl, suffering from HIV and tuberculosis, died of swine flu at a civic run hospital, taking the toll due to the virus in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region to 28, civic officials said today.

The girl, resident of suburban Santacruz, who tested positive for the H1N1 virus on September 23, died yesterday at the civic-run Nair hospital, they said.

"The victim's throat swabs were taken and the reports came positive for swine flu," an official said.

The victim, who was suffering from fever, was first admitted on September 21 to the KEM hospital. She was shifted to the intensive care unit of the Nair hospital on September 23, where her condition worsened.
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Boy succumbs to H1N1 virus

STAFF WRITER 19:43 HRS IST
Mumbai, Oct 1 (PTI) A five and a half-year-old boy from Ratnagiri died here today of swine flu at a civic run hospital, taking the death toll to 28 in the Mumbai Metropolitan region.

The boy identified as Dhanesh was suffering from fever, cold and cough since September 20 and was earlier undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Ratnagiri. He had tested H1N1 positive.

Since his condition was worsening he was admitted to Sion Hospital late night on September 24. He was given Tamiflu and his throat swab was also taken.

However, the boy died this morning at 6 am at the hospital, civic officials said
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Woman succumbs to swine flu

STAFF WRITER 20:18 HRS IST
Mumbai, Nov 20 (PTI) One person died due to swine flu at a civic-run hospital today, taking the death toll in the pandemic in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region to 30.

According to civic officials, the victim Rehana Mohammed Sheikh (34) died today at Nair hospital after she tested positive for the H1N1 strain.
"Sheikh was brought in a critical condition to the government-run Nair Hospital and was immediately put on ventilator. She developed breathless," Executive Health Officer Jairaj Thanekar said.

"Her throat swab was taken and she was immediately given Tamiflu," Thanekar said.

The victim earlier underwent treatment at a private hospital in Mira Road since November 11 but as her health worsened she was transfered to Nair hospital on November 14 with symptoms of H1N1.

Though experts have predicted a second wave of swine flu cases in winter, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) said it was prepared.

"There is no need to panic.
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Pregnant woman is first swine flu victim this year
Neha Bhayana, Hindustan Times
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Mumbai, May 27, 2010
First Published: 01:06 IST(27/5/2010)
Last Updated: 01:07 IST(27/5/2010)


Twenty-seven-year-old Naziya Admane, from Alibaug, succumbed to swine flu-related complications at Sion Hospital last Friday. This is the first swine flu-related death reported in Mumbai since last November and is a disturbing reminder of the fact that the H1N1 virus is still in circulation.

?She was eight months pregnant so she was more vulnerable. She was brought to Mumbai in a critical condition,? said Dr G.T. Ambe, BMC?s executive health officer.

On an average, H1N1 continues to kill one person a day in Maharashtra, mostly in Pune and its neighbouring districts.

In May, 20 people have died of swine flu, while in April, 30 deaths were reported and in March there were 47.

The death of Admane, who was eight months pregnant, took Maharashtra?s H1N1 death toll to 465 since the virus first hit the country in May 2009.

She was transferred from a private hospital in Alibaug to the civic-run Sion Hospital last Thursday. ?We put her on a ventilator and started treatment immediately but she died within 24 hours,? said Dr Sandhya Kamath, dean of Sion Hospital. The baby did not survive.

?High humidity, over crowding and various other environmental factors contribute to the spread of infectious diseases, particularly H1N1,? said Dr Om Srivastav, an infectious disease specialist with Kasturba Hospital.

Viruses usually slow down or stop spreading in the summer but experts are not surprised that H1N1 cases and deaths were still being reported in Maharashtra.

Of the 32 deaths reported in Mumbai hospitals so far, 16 were of Mumbaiites and the rest were from neighbouring areas.

?H1N1 is behaving like a typical respiratory virus. The activity of viruses increases during the post- monsoon and winter period but they stay in circulation through the year,? said Dr Abhay Choudhary, director of Haffkine Institute in Parel.

Some experts have predicted a resurgence of swine flu after monsoon but others say we should take all forecasts with a pinch of salt.

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Woman succumbs to A(H1N1) flu in Mumbai

The city reported its first A(H1N1) death in nearly eight months as a 25-year-old woman succumbed to the virus here, health officials said on Monday.

Ashiya Sheikh, a resident of Bhandup who had delivered twins on May 30, succumbed to the H1N1 virus at the Sion hospital on Saturday last, they said.

?Sheikh was put on Tami flu on June 2 when symptoms of H1N1 were first observed. She had developed ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) and was shifted to the medical intensive care unit,? Head of Epidemiology cell, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), Dr. Daksha Shah said.

The last H1N1 death in the city was reported in October.

Following Sheikh?s death, the civic body has adopted a wait and watch policy but has put its health department on alert.

?With one death we cannot say the virus is back in the air. We do not want to create panic among people. It is a wait and watch situation but we have put our health machinery on alert,? additional municipal commissioner, MCGM, Manisha Mhaiskar told PTI.

According to health officials, four persons have tested positive to the H1N1 virus in the past one week.

?The city has reported positive cases of A(H1N1). But these are sporadic cases and there has been no substantial rise in cases,? Mhaiskar said.

Mumbai has reported about 32 deaths due to A(H1N1) flu since last August.

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H1N1 patient open to visits, no check on contacts


Pritha Chatterjee
Posted: Jun 08, 2010 at 2325 hrs IST

Mumbai An H1N1 patient was moved out of the ICU of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Sion on Monday and kept in a room easily accessible to any visitor. She spent all day in the room in ward 20, where her husband visited her without protection, before the BMC finally had her shifted back to ICU.
The BMC has made no efforts yet to check how many people the woman, and another H1N1 patient who had died two days earlier, had come in contact with. The families have been given Tamiflu tablets but the hospital hasn?t checked if they are taking them; in fact, one isn?t.

Kamrunisha Quereshi, 19, is pregnant, as were the two women who have died of H1N1 in the city this year. Aashia Qasim Sheikh, 25, died at the hospital?s ICU on Saturday of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), a complication commonly resulting from swine flu. Her baby could not be saved. Ten days ago, Naziya Admane, 27, had died at the same hospital, after delivering healthy twins.

Kamrunisha?s husband Mohammed Amiruddin Qureshi said nobody had told him to wear a mask or warned him that his wife should be in quarantine. Late in the evening, director of the BMC?s medical colleges Dr Sanjay Oak said he had instructed doctors to shift her back to the ICU to ensure that isolation precautions were being followed.

?The families were given 10 days? dose of Tamiflu tablets after the patients tested positive for HINI. Sheikh?s family was given the dose on Friday, and Quereshi?s husband started his on Wednesday,? said Dr Sandhya Kamat, the hospital?s dean.

But Sera Sheikh, brother of Aashia, said neither he nor any member of the family had ?taken a single tablet?. He said the family didn?t believe they needed to. Dr Kamat said she would have to check if the hospital staff had verified that relatives were indeed taking the prescribed medication.

Dr G T Ambe, the BMC?s executive health officer, said the matter is not one of great concern as the incubation period of five days, during which the patient could have transmitted the disease, was anyway over. ?The patient was kept in isolation at Sion Hospital since May 30 when she was admitted. Before that, she was in a municipal hospital in Mulund (East) from where she was transferred when her condition became critical,? he said.

Dr Kamat said Sheikh was transferred because of a pregnancy-related problem. ?She delivered at our hospital, and started having breathing problems immediately after that on Wednesday, when she was shifted to the ICU in the isolation ward. Though she was started on Tamiflu immediately, reports confirming swine flu came only on Friday.? Thus, at least till Wednesday last week, she was in full contact with her family members.

BMC authorities admit that no efforts have been made to quarantine neighbours who may have come in contact with the patients. Sheikh lived in New Prakash Nagar Colony in Bhandup, and the Quereshis live in Om Sai Chawl in Dharavi. Quereshi, who runs his own leather business in Dharavi, said he has started taking the tablets doctors gave him. ?But nobody from the hospital has contacted anyone from our colony,? he said.

Asked about the threat this could pose in such densely populated areas, Dr Daksha Shah, head of the BMC?s epidemiology department, said a meeting would be held with the Sion Hospital authorities to discuss the matter. ?As of now, there are no immediate plans to quarantine acquaintances, as the immediate family members have already been given Tamiflu.?

Sion Hospital?s pharmacy still has no stock of swine flu masks. Not a single doctor in the wards was wearing one on Monday.

H1N1 update
* Naziya Admane, 27, delivered healthy twins, died last month at Sion Hospital
* Aashia Qasim Sheikh, 25, also pregnant, died Saturday, baby didn?t survive
* Kamrunisha Quereshi, 19, under treatment

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Re: Tracking Fatalities in Mumbai (Total = 32)

Re: Tracking Fatalities in Mumbai (Total = 32)

Now, swine flu spectre over city with rains

MUMBAI: The wave of swine flu, which hit the country last year, may return to strike the city, data suggests. There have been three deaths in the last 15 days and four people tested positive last week, of whom two are still in the isolation ward in Kasturba Hospital.

While Nazia Naushad (27), a resident of Alibaug died on May 21 in Sion Hospital, one-year-old Dhairya Bhatt, a resident of Mulund, died in Kasturba Hospital on May 28. Asiya Sheikh, (24), who delivered a pair of twins on June 2, succumbed to the virus on June 5.

Civic officials maintain there is no reason for Mumbaikars to panic, but fear the virus may become more active in the monsoon. ?The dip in temperature is one reason why the swine flu wave hit India last year.
With the monsoon coming, there is likely to be much cooler weather and thus more cases than during the summer," said Dr Pradeep Awate, of the state?s influenza cell.

?Even though we haven?t seen any cases this season, as the weather changes, there will be a sporadic increase in the number of cases. But it would not be like last year," said chest physician Dr Ashok Mahasur.

However, the experts say the virus is already there in the atmosphere. ?The virus has remained in the atmosphere from the time of the last flu wave and was de-activated by the heat. But with monsoon and a much cooler weather coming up, the virus may get active again," said Dr Daksha Shah, head of epidemiology cell.

Dr Hemant Thacker for example, is not of the opinion that swine flu would be as much of a menace as it was last year. ?The virus is more likely to be active during winter, since it is an air-borne virus. The rain tends to wash out floating organisms, so it is not likely that the virus will pose a threat to Mumbaikars during monsoon," he said.

Additional municipal commissioner, Manisha Mhaiskar, says there is nothing to worry about. ?There is not a great increase in the number of swine flu cases. It is not worse than the normal flu as of now. Even if the situation does worsen, we can revert to all the measures taken last year within 24 hours," she said.

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