The H1N1 virus continues to take a steady toll of lives in city. Jaya Deshmukh, a 30-year-old woman from Vasant Nagar in city died of acute
respiratory distress caused by H1N1 infection in the swine flu ward at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) at 5.30 am on Sunday after struggling for life for nine days on ventilator. Another woman, Zulekha Sheikh, a confirmed H1N1 positive patient from Badkuhi village in Chhindwara district, who was under treatment at the Orange City Hospital and Research Institute (OCHRI) is also learnt to have died on Saturday after being on ventilator for four days.
On Monday night, GMCH's swine flu ward had six patients (four suspected and two positive) and of these a 45-year-old man was on ventilator. With these two deaths in past two days, the toll due to swine flu in city has reached 16. Of these, 14 patients died at GMCH while a 12-year-old boy and 67-year-old Chhindwara woman died after treatment in private hospitals. The boy died while shifting from a child hospital in Dhantoli to OCHRI.
Total number of OPD patients screened so far at GMCH has gone up to 5508. Of these, hospital has sent swab and blood samples of 590 persons for testing. It has received reports of 583 individuals of which 100 have tested positive. The total number of screened patients including those at Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and private hospitals has touched 5885. Ten patients screened at IGGMC tested positive taking the total number of known positive patients to 110.