Pune medico, pharmacist with swine flu in critical condition
August 8th, 2009 - 5:18 pm ICT by IANSPune, Aug 8 (IANS) A medico and a pharmacist, both victims of H1N1 swine flu, continued in critical condition for the second day Saturday at the Sassoon Hospital here, medical authorities said.
“They are both on ventilators and their condition is causing concern,” said Pradeep Awate, head of the state Swine Flu Control Room.
In view of the large number of cases here, the government has now opened two more centres for swine flu treatment.
“Apart from the regular Naidu Hospital, we have started treating swine flu patients at Sassoon Hospital and Aundh Hospital too,” Awate told IANS here.
A five-year-old girl has been admitted to the intensive care unit of Sassoon Hospital and her condition is stable, Awate said. Besides swine flu symptoms, she is also suffering from pneumonia, he added.
The condition of the 18-year-old student of Symbiosis who was found positive for H1N1 virus here Friday is also stable and improving, according to Rajiv Yeravdekar, dean of the Faculty of Health Science.
The institute’s Senapati Bapat Marg campus here, where the victim used to stay, has been closed for a week. Yeravdekar said all other 16 campuses of the Symbiosis group of institutions are functioning normally.
Of the 53 new cases reported in Maharashtra Friday, 37 were from Pune alone.
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