Wednesday, August 12, 2009

6 swine flu dies more in India

Philippines is a swine flu toll rose to 17 Wednesday Six people succumbed to the H1N1 virus in successive Maharashtra, forced authorities to curb the educational institutions and public places in Mumbai for a week.

Wednesday saw the largest number of deaths from six a day because the first victim, Sheikh Reed, 14, died on August 3rd Pune

New Delhi, Ministry of Health has asked States to take stringent action against those hoarding masks and illegal sales of Tamiflu, anti-influenza drugs.

In Maharashtra, where the swine flu requested 13 lives that the government was forced to announce the closing of all the educational establishments in the state capital Mumbai a week from Thursday at multiplexes for three days.

However, offices and shopping centers will remain open, the official clarified.

While five persons died as a result of swine influenza in Pune, is called "epidemic city", six death was reported from Nashik.

Five people died in Pune is Gautam Shelar, a 48-year-old driver, Nita Meghani, 50, BABU Kuland gene, school students, Sanjay Mistry, 35, and Shravani Deshpande, 29, and the Maharashtra Control Room swine flu officials said.

All died at Sassoon hospital, which was handling a very serious case of swine flu in the second largest city in Maharashtra.

Shelar was hospitalized in critical condition for three to four days and died around 4:45 His death came barely an hour after Meghani died.

Babu died in the same hospital about 11 hours a resident in the city of Pimpri near here, BABU was hospitalized three days in serious condition, according to the Pune Municipal Corporation (Department of Health) among SR Pardeshi.

Mistry, Pimpri another resident, died in the small hours Wednesday. He was hospitalized Sunday in critical condition and put on ventilator.

By Deshpande hours too late to A (H1N1) influenza around 3 am He was hospitalized three days ago with pneumonia and was later found to suffer from swine flu. It is then placed on the ventilator.

At about the same time, Rakesh Gargunde, doctors of civil hospital in Nashik city, also succumbed to the swine influenza virus, said civil surgeon AD Singh instruments.

While Maharashtra accounts for the death of 13 - 10 in Pune, two in Mumbai and one in Nashik - one death each was reported from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram.

To 115 people were found positive Wednesday - 61 Pune, 24 in Mumbai, 10 in Bangalore, eight in New Delhi, four in Ahmedabad, three each in Kolkata and Hyderabad, and one in Shillong and Goa, the Ministry of Health said .

New cases are a total number of disabled people in the country in 1193-588, which are in various stages of recovery, it said.

Maharashtra, the most affected states, is preparing for the next part of his fight against the flu.

"The government ordered the closure of all schools, schools and other educational institutions in the city (Manila) from tomorrow until August 20," a Delhi government official said IANSA. Suburban trains in western megapolis, however, run as normal.

Reeling under increasing threat of swine flu, the state government of the disease is progressing, which requires a change in strategy to deal with them.

Now the government to change his treatment plan. Currently, Tamiflu is the result of testing, but it is provided in the first stage itself, the next Secretary-General (Health) Sharvari Gokhale told mediapersons.

He said that 22 private hospitals in Mumbai and Pune with a nine came on offering facilities for the treatment of swine influenza patients from government hospitals to get tight.

Many private schools in Delhi that closed for two days - Wednesday and Thursday. Then, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday are public holidays.

On reports of hoarding masks and illegal sale of Tamiflu tablets, trade unions, the Ministry of Health organized a meeting in New Delhi and also issued guidelines for private Laboratories to make it clear that only the as bio-safety equipment should be allowed to take tests.

New Delhi, Joint Secretary (Health) Vineet Chawdhry said that there is no need for everyone to wear a N95 mask, which is only for visiting the test center or be affected by influenza A (H1N1 ) virus.

He also called on governments to ensure that no selling or hoarding Tamiflu masks.

"State governments to have a heavy hand in all the hoarders and black-marketing. This is a public health crisis in the country." Citizens from all walks of life need to cooperate, "he added.

He said that people should avoid crowds and crowded places during the Hindu festival of Janmashtami 14th August to catch the virus.

Gearing to fight against the flu, the Delhi government has also issued instructions to all private hospitals under the jurisdiction of the epidemic reserve 10 beds for flu patients each.

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