Pune, Aug 12 (Inditop.com) A 50-year-old woman and a schoolboy were among the five people who succumbed to swine flu in Maharashtra Wednesday, taking India’s death toll to 16 in the 10 days since the first fatality.
Nita Meghani, 50, who was admitted to the Sassoon Hospital in a critical condition four days ago, died Wednesday afternoon, the Maharashtra Swine Flu Control Room said.
Babu Genu Kuland, a school student, died in the same hospital at about 11 a.m. A resident of Pimpri town near here, Babu was hospitalised three days ago in a serious condition, according to Pune Municipal Corporation (Health Department) chief S.R. Pardeshi.
Another Pimpri resident, Sanjay Mistry, 35, died in the same hospital early Wednesday. He was hospitalised Sunday in a critical condition and put on a ventilator, according to an official of the State Swine Flu Control Room.
Barely hours after Mistry succumbed to the influenza A (H1N1) infection, Shravani Deshpande, 29, died of the same disease.
Deshpande breathed her last around 3 a.m. She had been hospitalised here three days ago with pneumonia and later found to be suffering from swine flu. She was then put on ventilator.
Rakesh Gargunde, a medico in Nashik Civil Hospital, also succumbed to swine flu around 3 a.m., said civil surgeon A.D Bhal Singh.
Gargunde was admitted to hospital in an unconscious state two days ago and put on a ventilator. The test report confirming that he had swine flu was received by the hospital late Tuesday night.
Pune, which recorded India’s first swine flu death Aug 3, has seen nine deaths so far.
