One More Swine flu death in Pune – Toll Rises to 17 in India
Breaking News! Today, August 12, 2009 afternoon, a 50-year-old woman Nita Meghani died in Sassoon Hospital at Pune. And it was the 10th death of infected persons in Pune, has already crossed the 300 mark in the Maharashtra.
The total toll of swine flu casualties in India has now gone up to 17.
The Maharashtra Swine Flu Control Room said that she was admitted to the Sassoon Hospital in a critical condition four days ago, died this afternoon.
A resident of Pimpri town near Babu Genu Kuland, a school student, died in the same hospital at about 1100 hrs IS. According to to Pune Municipal Corporation (Health Department) chief S.R. Pardeshi, he was hospitalized three days ago in a serious condition.
One more death recorded in Pune was Sanjay Mistry. He was 35-year-old, a resident of Pimpri, near Pune, admitted to in the same hospital last Sunday in a critical condition and now he died, According to an official of the State Swine Flu Control Room.
In Pune, the worst hit city in Maharashtra, Shrawani Deshpande of 29 died from the same disease, barely hours after Mistry succumbed to the influenza A (H1N1) infection. Around 3 a.m., Deshpande breathed her last. She was later found to be suffering from swine flu.
A 38-year-old doctor Rupesh Gangurde died of the viral infection at the Nashik civil hospital on Wednesday morning, hospital sources said. He was admitted to a private hospital on Monday after he complained of vomitting and fever.
Two more people have died of swine flu in Gujarat and one each in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
At present, there are five critical patients in Pune’s Sassoon Hospital and another two critical patients are in a Mumbai hospital.
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