Swine flu toll reaches 19; hepatitis claims three lives in Wadi

NAGPUR: Even as swine flu continues to take toll on city and area, hepatitis outbreak in Wadi house, adjoining to city, is also killing patients. While the demise toll because of swine flu has reached 19, hepatitis has claimed three individuals.

Many citizens in Ambedkar Nagar in Wadi house are suffering from hepatitis E because of consumption of contaminated water. Since March 11, three individuals, together with a pregnant lady, have died because of hepatitis.

Twenty-six water samples from entire Wadi house have been found contaminated or non-potable. Total 46 samples have been ship for checking out and results of 31 samples have been acquired up to now.

Three patients died on March 11, March 19 and March 27. They are Mahesh Sadashiv Kude, age 32, Swati Vicky Gaikwad, age 25 and Moreshwar Ghodmare age 39. Of these, Swati was pregnant and died after supply. Her twin young children also died after beginning, alternatively, it is unclear in the event that they died because of hepatitis or no longer.

Dr Sonali Bansod informed IdealNews that from March 13 onwards 26 blood samples have been examined and of these, seventeen have examined positive for hepatitis.

In all, a total of 36,739 individuals have been surveyed from 21,429 homes. It also includes 264 pregnant women.

The administration woke up when lot of high fever circumstances have been reported from Ambedkar Nagar which is a slum house. Now, although there is not sufficient health group of workers available for surveillance or treatment, lend a hand of Asha employees is being sought to conduct door-to-door survey to identify any suspected circumstances.


Since Wadi is a municipal council and there is not any number one health centre in the house, the government are taking lend a hand of the district health services and products.


Swine flu has taken lifetime of six individuals this month taking the toll to 19 since January 1, 2019. These include 13 deaths from Nagpur city on my own. One demise each and every has been reported from Bhandara and Chandrapur districts and three deaths have been also reported from Amravati district.


So far 275 H1N1 positive circumstances have been reported since January. Of these, 118 circumstances have been reported this month. Progressive positive circumstances up to now include 184 circumstances from city, two from district house underneath civil surgeon, 12 from Nagpur rural house, 21 from different districts in Nagpur circle which include 5 from Wardha, three from Gondia, four from Bhandara, three from Gadchiroli and six from Chandrapur districts.


From Akola heath circle, 25 positive circumstances have been reported till March 28 and 29 positive circumstances have been reported from Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. They took treatment in Nagpur.
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