A 68-year-old woman from Puththan Tharuvai near Sattankulam in Thoothukudi district died of swine flu at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital (TVMCH) on Tuesday.
Sources at the TVMCH said R. Mariya Gracy, a diabetic with some heart ailment, was admitted to a private hospital here with breathing problem on Sunday. She was referred to the TVMCH on Monday with suspected symptoms of swine flu and the clinical investigations confirmed it.
Though Gracy was undergoing treatment at the isolated ward for H1N1 virus causing swine flu, she breathed her last on Tuesday.
Apart from Gracy, eight more patients, including six children, are undergoing treatment with symptoms of swine flu at the isolated ward.
