Source: Hueiyen News Service
Pune, August 03 2009:
India reported its first swine flu death after a 14-year-old girl student Riya Shiekh died of the influenza A (H1N1) virus on Monday (August 3) at Jehangir hospital in Pune.
The girl was on a ventilator for the past many days at an ICU in a hospital in Pune, an official said.
Health Secretary, Naresh Dayal, confirmed to TIMES NOW that the death of the girl was due to the flu.
It is learnt that this is not an imported case of swine flu but that it was passed on from another individual.
India has over 500 swine flu cases with Maharashtra being the worst hit.
The state has reported most of the cases in the country.
Test reports of two students and a 26-year-old youth, who had returned from Germany, on August 2 confirmed flu, the officials said adding they had been moved to an isolation ward at civic Naidu hospital.
The total number of confirmed cases of H1N1 virus are 101 in the city, health officials said on August 3 .
As many as 64 flu cases in the city have so far been discharged after treatment.
The total number of H1N1 infection in Maharashtra now stands at 147 .