Ahmedabad, August 11: A seven-year-old girl, having no history of foreign contact, today became the second victim of swine flu in Gujarat where the number of H1N1 cases rose to 15.
“Seven-year-old Arya Borde, who was admitted to the SSG hospital on last Wednesday died this afternoon,” the hospital’s medical superintendent Atul Saxena told PTI.
“She was admitted in a critical condition. Her samples were sent to the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) in Delhi where it turned out to be positive,” he said.
Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas said, “the girl had not come in contact with any of his relatives who had travelled to a foreign country recently and there is a possibility that this was a case of secondary infection”.
She was admitted to the SSG Hospital on August 5, but she had no viral pneumonitis patch until August 9 and when the results of H1N1 was confirmed on August 8, she was immediately administered Tamiflu but the infection had already spread to Borde’s lungs due to her condition further deteriorated and she died at 12.30 PM today, the Health Minister said.
He added it seems due to her young age she did not have proper immunity power and succumbed to the infection.
The first death in Gujarat due to H1N1 virus was of 43-year-old Praveen Patel, an NRI based in Atlanta, US, in the civil hospital on Sunday. Meanwhile, one more positive case of the viral disease was recorded today, taking the number of infected people to 15 in the state.
—PTI