Flu-hit businessman,mother forcefully brought back to RML

A ‘rich and powerful’ businessman afflicted by swine flu and his mother,to whom he had passed it on,were forcefully brought back to hospital after they had given a slip on Thursday night.

The 34-year-old businessman and his mother,who were taken to RML hospital by Delhi government officials after much persuasion on Wednesday night,had left the hospital on Thursday evening without informing the authorities.

A team of Delhi government officials and police went to businessman’s farm house at Rajokri late Thursday night and brought them back to the hospital.

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“They have been brought to APHO hospital near the airport last night,” a Delhi government official said.

The businessman,who carried the swine flu virus from New York,had refused to be hospitalised and insisted on being treated at home.