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SANGLAH HOSPITAL TREATS 20 SWINE FLU SUFFERERS, 31 SUSPECTS
Denpasar, INDONESIA, July 25 (ANTARA) - Sanglah Public Hospital in Denpasar, Bali Province, has so far treated 20 patients confirmed of having been infected with type-A Influenza (H1N1) or swine flu, and 31 suspects.
"Since the spreading of the H1N1 virus, Sanglah Hospital has treated a total of 51 patients, up to Saturday (July 25), we still have 10 patients, and three of them have been hospitalized since Friday (July 24)," dr. Lanang Suantara, head of the Sanglah Hospital's medical service unit, said here on Saturday.
The three patients suspected of having contracted H1N1 are Kusaki Shun (16) of Japan, Made (28) and Wiratani, both are Indonesians.
"The three swine flu suspects are being isolated at Nusa Indah Isolation room of the Sanglah Public Hospital. They are considered suspects because they had contacts with H1N1 sufferers or come from Type-A Influenza affected countries," he said.
In general, their condition is improving. All of the patients have complained of influenza like illness (ILI).
Meanwhile, Suantara said the Sanglah Hospital's management has proposed a more flexible medical treatment for H1N1 suspects.
He said those suspected of being infected with the swine flu virus need not to immediately isolated in a special medical room.
"Patients having ILI just need to stay at home for 3 to 4 days, while taking Tamiflu," he said.
"We very much hope that this proposal could be accepted by the health ministry, to make H1N1 medical treatment more flexible," he said.
Meanwhile, twenty-one more people were reported to have been infected with H1N1 virus on Friday raising the national number of infection cases so far to 343 consisting of 193 men and 150 women.
The health ministry said in its press statement received in Jakarta on Friday the new cases were found in Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Riau Islands, Bali, Yogyakarta, North Sumatra, East Java, East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.
The patients including some foreigners mostly had a history of traveling to infected countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea. ***
"Since the spreading of the H1N1 virus, Sanglah Hospital has treated a total of 51 patients, up to Saturday (July 25), we still have 10 patients, and three of them have been hospitalized since Friday (July 24)," dr. Lanang Suantara, head of the Sanglah Hospital's medical service unit, said here on Saturday.
The three patients suspected of having contracted H1N1 are Kusaki Shun (16) of Japan, Made (28) and Wiratani, both are Indonesians.
"The three swine flu suspects are being isolated at Nusa Indah Isolation room of the Sanglah Public Hospital. They are considered suspects because they had contacts with H1N1 sufferers or come from Type-A Influenza affected countries," he said.
In general, their condition is improving. All of the patients have complained of influenza like illness (ILI).
Meanwhile, Suantara said the Sanglah Hospital's management has proposed a more flexible medical treatment for H1N1 suspects.
He said those suspected of being infected with the swine flu virus need not to immediately isolated in a special medical room.
"Patients having ILI just need to stay at home for 3 to 4 days, while taking Tamiflu," he said.
"We very much hope that this proposal could be accepted by the health ministry, to make H1N1 medical treatment more flexible," he said.
Meanwhile, twenty-one more people were reported to have been infected with H1N1 virus on Friday raising the national number of infection cases so far to 343 consisting of 193 men and 150 women.
The health ministry said in its press statement received in Jakarta on Friday the new cases were found in Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Riau Islands, Bali, Yogyakarta, North Sumatra, East Java, East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.
The patients including some foreigners mostly had a history of traveling to infected countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea. ***
