SAIL doctor succumbs to swine flu in Orissa

A 40-year-old government doctor from Jharkhand died of swine-flu at a private hospital in New Delhi early today, officials said.
    
ENT specialist A K Burnwal, employed with SAIL's Raw material division at Kirbur mines, was suffering from fever and thereby shifted to Ispat General Hospital (IGH) here on October 8 as a suspected case of swine flu. Burnwal tested positive for H1N1 virus based on findings of a Kolkata laboratory.
    
As his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to Apollo Hospital in Delhi on October 18 by a special plane from Rourkela. The end came today at 6.45 am, the officials said. He is survived by his doctor wife Abha and two sons.
    
The Officers Association of the Kirbur mines has condoled the death of Burnwal.