JAIPUR/KOTA: While health department is focusing on combating Zika, in the past 20 days, 285 cases of swine flu have been reported across the state and 32 persons have died.
Till September 18, there were 148 deaths reported along with 1,491 swine flu cases. But, on October 5, the deaths increased to 180 and cases of swine flu further increased to 1,776 cases from January 1, 2018.
Patients with swine flu have started reaching Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh Hospital. “A 46-year-old swine flu patient from Kota is serious as he has double pneumonia. He is undergoing treatment at ICU. Also, there is one more patient who is also from Kota undergoing treatment in the hospital. At present, there are four swine flu patients in ICU and two in observation ward,” said Dr CL Nawal, senior professor (medicine), SMS hospital.
Viewing the increasing menace of seasonal diseases, including dengue, swine flu, scrub typhus, chikungunya and now zika emerging as a new challenge to tackle, health department called a video-conferencing of health department officials and prominent government doctors across the state for reviewing the situation.
Kota, Bundi, Baran and Jhalawar districts of Hadouti region are worst-affected due to swine flu. Two patients diagnosed with H1N1 influenza succumbed to the disease on Sunday while undergoing medical treatment in New Medical College hospital and Maharao Bhim Singh hospital in Kota taking the toll to 43 this year in four districts of the region since January while 449 tested positive with swine flu.
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 of the flu.
Two female patients, including one 60-year-old, a resident of Bhawanipura village of
Bundi district and another 33-year-old from
Baran district were admitted to MBS hospital on September 25 and New Medical College hospital on October 10 but they succumbed to the disease during treatment on Sunday, health department officials said.
A total 23 patients tested positive with swine flu virus have died so far in
Kota district since January this year while 331 patients have been tested positive, said chief medical and health officer, Kota district Dr RK Lawaniya.
In Baran, 13 swine flu deaths have been reported so far and 47 patients have been tested positive with H1N1 virus, said CMHO, Baran, Dr Sampat Nagar.
Similarly, swine flu has claimed at least five live in Bundi district so far and 35 patients have been tested positive with H1N1 virus, told Bundi district CMHO Dr Gokul Meena.
In Jhalawar, three patients tested with swine flu have died so far while 36 patients have been tested positive.
Separate OPD has been set up in the hospitals for screening of patients for swine flu.