Swine flu positive NRI couple’s condition critical but stable

In a fresh case of Swine flu reported in Gujarat, an NRI couple from Atlanta in US, was admitted to the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad after both husband and wife found to be infected by the H1N1 influenza A virus.

The couple had come from US on July 31 and developed symptoms of the disease from August 5. They initially went to a private hospital from where they were shifted to the civil hospital. The man, brought in critical condition to the hospital in the wee hours, was put on ventilator. His condition has improved now and the ventilator has been removed. He is stable.

The condition of the two is said to be critical. A team of expert doctors is trying best to treat the couple.

With these two new cases the toll of those infected with Swine flu in Gujarat has reached 10.

H1N1 testing facility in Ahmedabad

Meanwhile in important related development, a special laboratory has been set up by the state health department at BJ Medical College in civil hospital campus to conduct H1N1 (swine flu) tests. The World Health Organisation has provided kits for swine flu testing in this lab. Earlier the state health department had to send samples to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), Delhi in absence of a facility in Gujarat.