The number of swine flu cases in the provisional State capital received a quantum jump on Friday as 23 new cases of the disease were reported by the health department. With them the number of people affected by dreaded H1N1 virus this season has reached to 120.
The district in charge of integrated disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), Dr Puneet Chandra said that 23 cases were found positive on the day while samples of 22 patients proved negative.
Dr Chandra said 110 cases have been found positive by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) in this year and out of them 69 are from Dehradun, 26 are from other districts of the State and 15 are from other States. He said that 42 patients suspected to be suffering from the disease are at present undergoing treatment in different hospitals of Dehradun. Out of them, 23 patients are admitted in Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust (HIHT), seven in Vaish, six in Max, three in Synergy, two in Mahant Indiresh and one in associated hospital of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC).
He further informed that the department has sent samples of seven suspected patients to the NCDC for test of H1N1 this month but reports of all them are yet to arrive. So far 15 patients have succumbed to swine flu so far out of which ten are from Dehradun; two belonged to Pauri while one each belong to Haridwar and Uttarkashi.