The death toll due to Swine flu in Dehradun is on the rise. On Wednesday, one more death due to H1 N1 has been reported by the state health department. A 26- year- old woman patient, a resident of Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh ( UP), has succumbed to the H1 N1 virus . She was admitted at Mahant Indiresh Hospital with complaint of high fever and breathlessness and was later reported positive for the disease. With her death, the number of patients who have so far died from the disease this season has increased to 18. The health department has also reported 14 more cases of the disease on the day when the swab samples have been found positive.
The chief medical officer (CMO) Dehradun S K Gupta said that 95 patients have so far been found positive for Swine flu this season.
CMO further said that all the medical professionals have been asked to keep track of the suspected cases of the disease and inform each of them to the district health department. He claimed that all the hospitals have adequate stocks of the required medicines and they have been asked to set up isolation wards to treat Swine flu patients.