September 7, 2012 12:15 PM

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Swine flu cases swell to 80 in Lucknow

In Uttar Pradesh, swine flu H1N1 cases have swelled from 50 last week to more than 80 till yesterday, in the capital Lucknow.The super speciality hospital of state, Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Post graduate Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) has 65 swine flu infected cases and all of them are employees of the institute.Most of these employees are from Microbiology department of the institute which got infected while treating the patients of H1N1 cases.AIR Correspondent from Lucknow reports that Chief Medical Officer Dr S.N.S Yadav has said, despite being sudden spurt in swine flu cases, no one is serious and all of them are well under control. He has asked the director of SGPGIMS to make available large quantity of disposable napkins for all the entrants of PGI campus. SGPGIMS authorities have said that all the in-house patients with even normal flu symptoms are being thoroughly investigated to detect the swine flu. They said, utmost care is being taken to check its further spread.

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