Swine flu takes two more lives, countrywide toll mounts to six
Swine flu today claimed the lives of a boy and an ayurvedic doctor.
By PTI |
CHENNAI/PUNE: Swine flu today claimed the lives of a four-year-old boy in Chennai and a 35-year-old ayurvedic doctor in Pune, taking the countrywide toll due to the deadly viral infection to six.
The boy, B Sanjay, who was admitted to a private hospital with kidney and liver-related complications and had tested positive for swine flu, died this morning, health officials said in Chennai.
The boy had also been suffering from asthma. This is the first case of flu-related death in Tamil Nadu.
"The boy was in a very critical condition. He had been suffering from asthma and he had been taken from one hospital to another for various complications. Ultimately he landed up in this hospital for a kidney-related problem...and they found the boy testing positive (for swine flu)," Tamil Nadu Health Secretary V K Subburaj said.
The boy, who was on a ventilator, died following "multi- organ failure," S Ilango, Director of Public Health, said.
In Pune, the medic, Babasahib Mane, died in the Sassoon Hospital this morning, becoming the third person in the worst-hit Maharashtra city to succumb to swine flu, a senior health official said.
Mane was ailing for sometime and blood had been found in his sputum in the last couple of days, he said.
With the two deaths today, the swine flu toll in the country has climbed to six.
The boy, B Sanjay, who was admitted to a private hospital with kidney and liver-related complications and had tested positive for swine flu, died this morning, health officials said in Chennai.
The boy had also been suffering from asthma. This is the first case of flu-related death in Tamil Nadu.
"The boy was in a very critical condition. He had been suffering from asthma and he had been taken from one hospital to another for various complications. Ultimately he landed up in this hospital for a kidney-related problem...and they found the boy testing positive (for swine flu)," Tamil Nadu Health Secretary V K Subburaj said.
The boy, who was on a ventilator, died following "multi- organ failure," S Ilango, Director of Public Health, said.
In Pune, the medic, Babasahib Mane, died in the Sassoon Hospital this morning, becoming the third person in the worst-hit Maharashtra city to succumb to swine flu, a senior health official said.
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Mane was ailing for sometime and blood had been found in his sputum in the last couple of days, he said.
With the two deaths today, the swine flu toll in the country has climbed to six.
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