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Woman dies of swine flu in UAE; body flown home to Kerala
Category ? World Posted On Monday, September 07, 2009
Agencies
Dubai, Sept 7:
The body of an Indian woman who succumbed to swine flu shortly after premature delivery, has been flown back to her home town in Kerala last night.
Deepti Gopinath, 27, who works as a nurse in the UAE, died of H1N1 infection at a hospital in Al Ain last week. She died without fulfilling her last wish of seeing her newborn baby, as she was quarantined.
The family is also desperate to know how and from where she got infected with the virus. Deepti had come to the UAE after marriage only a year ago.
''We still remember the day we went to pick her up from the airport and how happily she joined us,'' said Sunita, sister-in-law of Deepti. Deepti died on Tuesday, days after giving birth to her first child at a hospital in Al Ain, according to the Gulf News.
The 13-day-old baby girl, Devika Nair, remains in hospital under observation, and does not have the infection. Deepti was the only daughter of her parents who live in Pathanamthitta, Kerala. She was the second pregnant woman in the UAE to die of Swine Flu.
Woman dies of swine flu in UAE; body flown home to Kerala
Category ? World Posted On Monday, September 07, 2009
Agencies
Dubai, Sept 7:
The body of an Indian woman who succumbed to swine flu shortly after premature delivery, has been flown back to her home town in Kerala last night.
Deepti Gopinath, 27, who works as a nurse in the UAE, died of H1N1 infection at a hospital in Al Ain last week. She died without fulfilling her last wish of seeing her newborn baby, as she was quarantined.
The family is also desperate to know how and from where she got infected with the virus. Deepti had come to the UAE after marriage only a year ago.
''We still remember the day we went to pick her up from the airport and how happily she joined us,'' said Sunita, sister-in-law of Deepti. Deepti died on Tuesday, days after giving birth to her first child at a hospital in Al Ain, according to the Gulf News.
The 13-day-old baby girl, Devika Nair, remains in hospital under observation, and does not have the infection. Deepti was the only daughter of her parents who live in Pathanamthitta, Kerala. She was the second pregnant woman in the UAE to die of Swine Flu.