Senior officials in the health department said two of the deaths took place on Thursday at BLK super-specialty and Action Balaji hospitals respectively. The pregnant woman, a 23-year-old resident of Krishna Nagar in east Delhi, was admitted to LNJP Hospital on February 5 and died of the disease on February 12 but could not be reported until Friday.
"With 143 people testing positive on Friday, the number of swine flu cases have gone up to 2,060 and there have been nine deaths so far," said Dr S K Sharma, director of health services.
Sharma said the incidence was likely to go down with increase in temperature. "The two patients who succumbed to the disease at BLK and Balaji Action hospitals had associated co-morbid conditions. While one of them suffered from blood cancer, the other had heart disease," he said, adding that the toll in Delhi was among the lowest in the country.
According to data from the Union health ministry, 743 people have died of the disease this season while 11,955 cases have been reported across the country so far.
TOI had reported on Thursday how healthcare workers, who are at maximum risk of contracting the disease from infected patients, were not being given preventive vaccination in state-run hospitals since there is no procurement policy on the same. The director of health services confirmed on Friday that vaccines would be procured and all doctors and nurses would be vaccinated soon.
In the private sector, many doctors said they recently got themselves vaccinated to avoid catching infection from the patients. "All high-risk patients such as health workers, the elderly, those suffering from chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart diseases and those immune-compromised should take the preventive vaccine annually before the onset of winter to reduce morbidity and mortality risk," said a senior doctor.
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