Hyderabad, January 01, 2015 (Agencies) A 21 year old pregnant women dies of swine flu. The women hails from hyderabad who had admitted to Osmania hospital on 27 December. The women who tested positive for Swine flu took her last breath on Wednesday , she was suffering from lungs infection. Swine flu had claimed the lives of four persons last month.
There are five more persons who tested positive with swine flu are under treatment including 3 children. Dr.
Rao stated that swine flu is not life- threatening if cure on time, and asked people not to panic.
As private hospitals do not insist on the address and phone numbers of patients, the district surveillance officers are finding it tough to trace the patients who left the hospitals against medical advice.
Dr. Rao said that notices would be sent to the hospitals asking them to record the address and contact details of the patients they admit.