Two women died on Sunday at the New Medical College hospital and Maharao Bhim Singh hospital in Kota after being tested H1N1 positive.
With two more swine flu deaths on Sunday in the Hadouti region, the toll has reached 43 since January.
Two women died on Sunday at the New Medical College hospital and Maharao Bhim Singh hospital in Kota after being tested H1N1 positive.
The medical and health department in Kota has further stepped up measures to check the menace of the virus and 60 medical teams are in the field for the surveillance. Two female patients who died were Sugnabai, 60, a resident of Bhawanipura village of Bundi district and Kakodibai, 33 of Baran district, said entomologist Vinod Prabhakar at MBS hospital. The two female patients were admitted respectively at MBS hospital on September 25 and New Medical College hospital on October 10 but they both died, he added.
A total 23 patients tested swine flu positive have died so far in Kota district since January this year while 331 patients have been tested positive, said Dr. R.K. Lawaniya, chief medical and health officer, Kota district. Medical and health staff have been put on alert and speedy measures are in place to check the spread of swine flu virus, he said, claiming at least 60 medical teams have been deployed in the field to carry out door-to-door survey and surveillance. Preventive Tami Flu tablets are being distributed in around 50 houses in the neighbourhood of the suspected swine flu patients and of those tested positive, he said and added the spread of H1N1 virus is under control.
In Baran, 13 deaths of swine flu have been registered so far and 47 patients have been tested positive with H1N1, said Dr Sampat Nagar, CMHO, Baran.
Similarly, swine flu has claimed at least five lives in Bundi district so far and 35 patients have been tested H1N1 positive, said Dr Gokul Meena,Bundi district CMHO.
In Jhalawar, three patients have died so far while 36 patients have been tested positive.
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Medical and health staff have been put on alert and speedy measures are in place to check the spread of swine flu virus. At least 60 medical teams have been deployed to carry out door-to-door survey and surveillance. Preventive Tami Flu tablets are being distributed.
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