One more patient has succumbed to swine flu in Dehradun while 12 new patients of this disease were reported by the district health department on Friday. The patient, a four year old girl, a resident of Khanpur in Haridwar district died due to dreaded H1 N 1 virus on August 8. The district health department recieved the positive report of her sample from the National Centre of Disease Control ( NCDC) on August 10, two days after her death. The girl was admitted at Himalayan Hospital Jollygrant with symptoms of the disease on August 6. Apart from this confirmed death, one more patient, a five year old boy, a resident of Kali Ki Dhal in Rishikesh has also supposedly died from Swine Flu. This boy died at Himalayan hospital Jolly Grant on August 9. The health department has still not recieved the report of the boy from the NCDC.
The district in charge of integrated disease control programme, Dr Puneet Chandra said that reports of 24 suspected patients of the disease are still awaited by the department. He informed that 67 cases of Swine Flu have been reported till date this year out of which 12 patients have succumbed to the disease. The department has so far sent samples of 179 suspected patients to NCDC for swine flu test. The health department has issued an alert in view of unseasonal spurt in case of swine flu.
All the hospitals have been asked to set up isolation ward to cater the patients of the disease.