One more person died of swine flu at the K.A.P. Government Medical College Hospital on Tuesday.
Mohamed Salim (49) of Manalmedu, in Pudukottai district, was admitted to the hospital on Monday with severe respiratory complaints, fever, throat pain and fatigue. He tested positive for H1N1 influenza, hospital sources said. Though he was put on life support systems, he did not respond to the treatment.
With this, the total number of persons who have died of H1N1 in Tiruchi has risen to nine in the last one month.
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Hospital sources said 10 patients with symptoms of H1N1 influenza were being treated. Around 30 patients from Tiruchi, Pudukkottai, Thanjavur, Perambalur and Karur, who were admitted to the hospital over the past few weeks after testing positive for H1N1, have been treated and discharged.
The hospital has three isolation wards to treat H1N1 influenza patients.