Swine flu anxiety flies keen on Ahmedabad

Anxiety about Gujarat falling victim to the swine flu pandemic has continued to grow as another suspected case of swine flu is reported on Thursday, this time from Ahmedabad city itself. The suspected case, a 30-year-old woman, has been admitted to VS hospital where she has been kept into the isolation ward.

Sources at the hospital said the woman had returned from the US some two days back, also had fallen ill with symptoms of swine flu. She consulted a local physician who referred her to the VS hospital.

After a primary investigation of her symptoms, she was admitted to the hospital. Samples of her blood and a swab have been sent near the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi, for tests. The woman is being given Tamiflu with other antibiotic medicines which are the first general purpose medicines given to anyone suspected to be suffering from swine flu. VS Hospital does not have any isolation wards left for more suspected cases of the flu.

The deputy commissioner of Ahmedabad municipal corporation (AMC), Dilip Mahajan, said the patient have been admitted to the hospital on Thursday. "Her blood samples have been sent to the NICD, New Delhi, for tests," he said.

When asked whether the hospital was well-equipped with medicines and sufficient number of isolation wards for more suspected cases of swine flu, Mahajan said it be not possible to give medicines to a patient unless tests had identified the specific strain of the virus.

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