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Swine flu toll touches 15
Pune/Nashik, Aug 12 (PTI) Swine flu pandemic toll
on Wednesday rose to 15 with three more persons -- two in Pune
and one in Nashik -- succumbing to the virus even as schools,
colleges and cinema halls in Mumbai were shut down to check
the spread of the infection.
29-year-old Shrawani Deshpande and 33-year-old Balu
Kuland died due to the disease in Pune, taking the toll in the
worst hit city in Maharashtra to 8, officials said.
Nashik registered its first flu death when 38-year-old
doctor Rupesh Gangurde died of the viral infection at the
Nashik civil hospital Wednesday morning.
He was admitted to a private hospital on Monday after
he complained of vomitting and fever. His blood sample was
sent to Pune and he tested positive for H1N1.
So far, the flu has claimed a total of 15 lives -- one
each in Ahmedabad, Vadodra, Thane, Chennai and
Thiruvananthapuram, two in Mumbai and eight in Pune.
With the infection spreading fast, the Maharashtra
government ordered closure of schools and colleges in Mumbai
for a week and theatres and multiplexes for three days.
The decision was taken as part of preacautionary
measures to check the infection, a senior state government
official said.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena and NCP appealed to people to
observe 'dahi-handi' programmes on the occasion of
Janamasthami on a low key to check the virus from spreading.
Swine flu cases countrywide have crossed the 1,000
mark with 119 fresh cases being reported till on Tuesday.
In Delhi, two children of Food and Civil Supplies
Minister Haroon Yusuf have tested positive for swine flu and
have been quarantined at home. Three other patients with swine
flu symptoms have been admitted to the RML hospital in the
capital.
With spiralling cases of swine flu countrywide,
central teams have been despatched to all states and Union
Territories after Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad chaired a
meeting of 35 additional secretaries and joint secretaries
drawn from various ministries.
He briefed the teams personally on Tuesday before they
were dispatched to the state capitals.
While 14 additional secretaries would go to the big
states, the joint secretaries would got to other states and
Union Territories.The teams would stay there for two-three
days and would return by August 15.
Azad also spoke to all Chief Ministers and told them
to step up preparedness.
The health minister requested the Chief Ministers to
chair the first meeting of these teams so that on-the-spot
decisions are taken for swift implementation, a senior health
ministry official said.
The Central teams will discuss with state governments
new guidelines issued by the ministry of health and family
welfare with record to capacity building issues such as
identification of labs for testing and hospitals in private
and public sectors for screening, diagnosis and treatment of
swine flu patients. PTI TEAM SC
SDE
on Wednesday rose to 15 with three more persons -- two in Pune
and one in Nashik -- succumbing to the virus even as schools,
colleges and cinema halls in Mumbai were shut down to check
the spread of the infection.
29-year-old Shrawani Deshpande and 33-year-old Balu
Kuland died due to the disease in Pune, taking the toll in the
worst hit city in Maharashtra to 8, officials said.
Nashik registered its first flu death when 38-year-old
doctor Rupesh Gangurde died of the viral infection at the
Nashik civil hospital Wednesday morning.
He was admitted to a private hospital on Monday after
he complained of vomitting and fever. His blood sample was
sent to Pune and he tested positive for H1N1.
So far, the flu has claimed a total of 15 lives -- one
each in Ahmedabad, Vadodra, Thane, Chennai and
Thiruvananthapuram, two in Mumbai and eight in Pune.
With the infection spreading fast, the Maharashtra
government ordered closure of schools and colleges in Mumbai
for a week and theatres and multiplexes for three days.
The decision was taken as part of preacautionary
measures to check the infection, a senior state government
official said.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena and NCP appealed to people to
observe 'dahi-handi' programmes on the occasion of
Janamasthami on a low key to check the virus from spreading.
Swine flu cases countrywide have crossed the 1,000
mark with 119 fresh cases being reported till on Tuesday.
In Delhi, two children of Food and Civil Supplies
Minister Haroon Yusuf have tested positive for swine flu and
have been quarantined at home. Three other patients with swine
flu symptoms have been admitted to the RML hospital in the
capital.
With spiralling cases of swine flu countrywide,
central teams have been despatched to all states and Union
Territories after Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad chaired a
meeting of 35 additional secretaries and joint secretaries
drawn from various ministries.
He briefed the teams personally on Tuesday before they
were dispatched to the state capitals.
While 14 additional secretaries would go to the big
states, the joint secretaries would got to other states and
Union Territories.The teams would stay there for two-three
days and would return by August 15.
Azad also spoke to all Chief Ministers and told them
to step up preparedness.
The health minister requested the Chief Ministers to
chair the first meeting of these teams so that on-the-spot
decisions are taken for swift implementation, a senior health
ministry official said.
The Central teams will discuss with state governments
new guidelines issued by the ministry of health and family
welfare with record to capacity building issues such as
identification of labs for testing and hospitals in private
and public sectors for screening, diagnosis and treatment of
swine flu patients. PTI TEAM SC
SDE
