Mumbai: Two women have died due to swine flu
at a private hospital here, taking the death toll in the
Mumbai Metropolitan Region to 22, officials said on Tuesday.
A 50-year-old woman from Vasai in neighbouring Thane
district and a 29-year-old woman from Kandivali succumbed on
September 14 and September 12 respectively at Nanavati
Hospital in suburban Vile Parle.
"Both patients had tested positive for H1N1 virus and
died on Saturday and Monday respectively," Nanavati`s Medical
Superintendent Dr Ashok Hatolkar said.
One of them, Munira Ujjainwala (50), was earlier admitted
to Cardinal Gracious Hospital in Vasai and shifted to Nanavati
Hospital on September 12 in a critical condition. Her throat
swab was taken the same day and she was immediately given
Tamiflu," Hatolkar said.
Ujjainwala, who died yesterday, had hypertension,
diabetes and asthma, he said.
The second victim, Minal Shah, was admitted to Life
Line Hospital in Malad on September 3 with fever and cough.
She was shifted to Nanavati on September 7 as she was in a
critical condition, and put on ventilator," Hatolkar said.
Shah was given the full dose of Tamiflu but she died
on September 12, he said.
Bureau Report
