Chandigarh, August 23: A 40-year-old woman of Haryana’s Kurukshetra district died of suspected swine flu at a private hospital in Panchkula, a senior health official said today.
Sheela, who was suffering from cough, high fever and respiratory distress, was admitted to the hospital on August 18 and died yesterday.
“The samples of the woman have been sent to the NICD. At the moment, it would not be proper to say if she died due to swine flu. The picture will be clear after the test reports arrive,” Haryana’s Director General Health Services Narvir Singh told PTI.
“She had been suffering from high fever, cough and respiratory distress,” the State’s Director, Health Services, O P Mittal said.
Panchkula’s District Health Officer M L Garg said a departmental team had visited the hospital to collect the patient’s test samples.
–PTI