12 more suspected H1N1 cases in Mumbai

Mumbai: Twelve suspected swine flu patients were today quarantined at the civic body-run Kasturba Hospital here following symptoms of H1N1 as panicked citizens queued up outside the hospital for check up. Outside the Kasturba Hospital in South Mumbai, which is the referral hospital to quarantine swine flu cases, a large number of people gathered since morning.

The hospital authorities counselled them, checked all the patients who came with fever or throat infection and asked them to take rest and not to panic. "After the Maharashtra government advised yesterday that people with suspected H1N1 virus infection should go to the government specified hospital and not to any private hospital, today at least 50 people came to our hospital for check-up for various symptoms," Dr Umesh Aigel, Superintendent of the hospital told PTI. "We are giving counseling to those who came just for a check-up as they do want to take any chance with their kin having fever or any throat infections," he said.

"We checked all of them and send them back," he said. 16 more beds were arranged at the hospital to cope with the additional rush, the official said.


Currently three confirmed flu patients are undergoing treatment in the hospital with Tamiflu and antibiotics, he added.