Swine Flu claims 2 more lives in Ahmedabad,Gujarat death toll 5

Chetan Prabhatbhai Patel, a 35-year-old man and Gautam Prajapati a 25-year-old man died of swine flu at the Ahmedabad Civil hospital in last two days. While Chetan died on Wednesday evening, Gautam died on Thursday afternoon at 12:45 pm. Both were from Ahmedabad.

Chetan was admitted to the hospital on August 16 with severe swine flu symptoms. Before coming to Civil hospital he had taken treatment in private hospital in Odhav.

Though he was put on a dose of the anti-swine flu medicine, Tamiflu from August 16 itself, his laboratory results of the blood and swab tests that confirmed that he was a Swine Flu positive patient were received only on Wednesday(August 19). According to sources Chetan was put on ventilator initially and later was taken off the ventilator. His situation suddenly deteriorated and he succumbed to the death.

Gautam’s is the fith death of Swine flu in Gujarat, and fourth in Ahmedabad.

Meanwhile, the latest Swine flu figures as available on Thursday evening, from Government of Gujarat’s Health and Family Welfare Department are following:

Total suspected patients: 453
Total Negative cases: 345

Total Positive patients: 73 in Gujarat (Ahmedabad Civil hospital-45 , Ahmedabad-V.S. hospital-3, Surat-12, Vadodara-4, Kandla-1, Bhavnagar-2, Gandhinagar-1, Rajkot-3, Jamnagar-1, Daman-1) This include all the patients who are treated and also those who died.

Total admitted patients: 32 in Gujarat(Jamnagar-1, Rajkot(private hospital)-1, Ahmedabad Civil hospital-10, Surat-5, Bhavnagar-2, V.S.hospital-2)