The Health Department has issued an alert in all the hospitals of Raipur district following death of a woman from swine flu infection last night in a private hospital in the city.
However, Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr K R Sonwani maintained that there is no complaint of the swine flu infection spreading in Raipur district but an alert had been sounded across the district folloing the death of a patient.
The woman who succumbed to the swine flu infection had attended the Kumbh mela with her family in Allahabad. After returning from Kumbh mela, her child developed pneumonia with cough and cold.
The child was admitted in a city-based private hospital where he recovered. However the infection got transmitted to his mother, he informed. The woman was admitted about 20 days back in a private hospital in critical condition and she breathed her last yesterday night. The patient had similar problem of cough and cold and was constantly on a ventilator with no improvement in her condition, Dr Sonwani said.
The Health Department had already started distributing the necessary precautionary medicines to the families in hospitals and various localities of Raipur district.