Swine Flu: Gujarat toll rises to 8

rajasthanOne more person succumbed to H1N1, raising the total number of swine flu fatalities in Gujarat to 8.

Health officials informed the media persons that a 23-year-old pregnant woman named Vaishali Kalal, admitted to Rudraksh private hospital in Naroda on August 28 died on Saturday morning.

Speaking on this, Dr Nainesh Giani, MD, Rudraksha Hospital said: “Her condition became critical on Saturday. A medical team from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation collected the swab samples of the patient at 2 am on Saturday. The patient also had a history of TB.”

Meanwhile, till Sunday, 24 more persons tested positive of swine flu in the state, taking the total number of cases to 112 so far.

Notably, Ahmedabad (Gujarat) is the third worst swine flu-hit state after Pune (Maharashtra) and Bangalore (Karnataka) in the country.