Chetan Patel, 35, was Odhav resident; a suspected case who died in Surat is found H1N1 negative.
Chetanbhai Prabhatbhai Patel, a 35-year-old man from Odhav, died of swine flu at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on Wednesday. He was admitted to the hospital on August 16 with severe swine flu symptoms and was immediately shifted to the isolation ward for suspected cases of the disease.
Patel was put on a dose of the anti-swine flu medicine, Tamiflu, from August 16 itself though the results of the blood and swab tests that confirmed that he was suffering from swine flu were received only on Wednesday (August 19). Sources at the hospital said his condition had started improving, so much so that he was taken off the ventilator. But his condition suddenly deteriorated and he succumbed to the deadly viral disease in the evening on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Jaishankar Mishra, a 47-year-old man who died in the isolation ward of Surat’s New Civil Hospital (NCH) on Wednesday morning, is now known to have been free of swine flu. His blood and swab samples had been sent to the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad for confirmatory tests.
Doctors at the Surat hospital were expecting his test reports to reach Surat on Thursday, but sources at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad told DNA that Mishra’s test reports indicated that he was H1N1 negative.
Earlier on Wednesday in Surat, there was widespread panic in Chikowadi area of Pandesara in Udhna zone of the city after Mishra’s death. NCH superintendent Dr MK Wadhel said Mishra had all the symptoms of swine flu.
“He had got himself admitted to a private hospital on August 13 and was under treatment there until August 15 when his condition began to deteriorate,” Wadhel said. “On August 15, he was brought to the NCH where he was admitted and immediately shifted to the isolation ward for suspected swine flu cases.”
Mishra’s test reports reveal that he was suffering from acute pneumonia, a finding confirmed by doctors at the NCH.
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