MLA down with swine flu, in hospital

Dr Sandip Tamane, consulting physician at Deenanath Mangeshkar hospital, said Kulkarni was stable and recovering well. “She has been kept under isolation and has been responding well to anti-viral medication,” said Tamane.

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He said there has been an increase in cases of fever, cold and cough. “We tend to prescribe anti-viral drugs based on clinical examination and if there is even one per cent suspicion it could be swine flu we put the patient on oseltamivir,” he added.

This year, there were 178 H1N1 positive cases in Pune and 78 were hospitalised and discharged after treatment. There were 20 deaths, the majority from outside the city who had come for treatment. Meanwhile, two deaths were reported on Friday by Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation health authorities. They were 55-year-old Ahilya Lokhande of Khed tehsil in Pune district and 59-year-old Dattatreya Namade of Chinchwad.