Two senior citizens and a nine-year-old child from Thane have died from swine flu in Mumbai in the last 48 hours, taking the death toll across the city to 42
On the other hand, 74-year-old Malad resident, who was being treated for the disease for over ten days at Sidhhi Vinayak Hospital and then at Nanavati Hospital, also succumbed to Multiple Myeloma with Aspergillosis (wide variety of diseases caused by infection by fungi of the genus Aspergillus).
A nine-year-old girl child from Thane was the paediatric casualty. She passed away on due to cardio respiratory arrest on March 29. The child had been admitted to KilBil Children’s Hospital on March 25 and then moved to Kasturba Hospital within two days.
The three deaths have taken the death toll across the city to 42, out of which 15 cases are from Mumbai and rest are patients who came to the city for treatment. A total of 1562 Mumbaikars have been tested H1N1 positive from January 19.
