Swine flu is spreading in the State with each passing day. On Tuesday it claimed a total of four lives, two each in Indore and Gwalior, taking the toll in the State to 16 during the past one month. In Indore two persons died of swine flu taking the toll since January 1 to seven. Dean of the Government Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College Dr Sanjay Dixit said, “A 68-year-old woman from Dhar district and a 66-year-old man with symptoms of swine flu were admitted to different hospitals some days back. Both died on January 30.”
The swab sample test reports today confirmed that they had swine flu, he added. Another person, with suspected symptoms of swine flu died on Monday at the government Maharaja Yeswantrao Hospital. His swab sample report was yet to come. Two swine flu patients were discharged from MYM after treatment. Meanwhile, the divisional commissioner Sanjay Dubey visited the swine flu patients ward of MYM and reviewed the facilities. Apart from MYM, the district Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) has identified ten private hospitals for treatment of swine flu patients.
In Gwalior two persons, including a newborn, have died of swine flu here during the last 24 hours, a health official said. A girl born last night died at around 4 AM at the government Kamla Raja hospital (KRH). Confirming that the newborn baby was suffering from swine flu, district’s Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Anup Kamthan said that the girl’s mother Suman was shifted to an isolation ward of KRH. A team of medical staffers has been sent to New Sanjay Nagar locality, where Suman lives, to find out if some more people there are infected with the H1N1 virus, he said.
Besides, Rajasthan’s Dholpur district resident Archana, who was suffering from swine flu, was admitted to KRH where she died yesterday, he said. Another woman with symptoms of swine flu was admitted to Birla hospital from where she has been rushed to Delhi for treatment, Kamthan added. However, concerned with the widely spreading deadly disease Principal Secretary - health government of MP Pravir Krishn has issued instructions to all CMHOS & CS to personally arrange for suspected swine flu patients to be attended to, their samples taken if needed, medicine given and further watched as per protocols. Besides admission if needed and full treatment as per requirements be supervised by specialists, he added.
He further instructed to arrange for full proof security of attending doctors and staff. All safety equipments and kits are available. There is nothing to worry if you follow protocols of safety of both patient and treating doctors and staff too. A hands-on training by senior AIIMS Bhopal doctors is being organised at JP Hospital on Wednesday at 9.30 am for confidence building of doctors and staff.