Jamnagar Rajkot City District News Samachar Gujarat India

“Rajkot City's own H1N1 testing lab within week”, said health minister.

Taking a serious note of H1N1 death toll across Saurashtra, Gujarat State heath and tourism minister Jay Narayan Vyas in his second consecutive address in the city on Wednesday said, the state government is going to set up a laboratory for H1N1 virus testing in Rajkot City Gujarat India.

"The laboratory will be operational within a week. It will help reduce the time lag of test results of suspected cases of Saurashtra,'' Vyas said. At present the region's hospitals send samples to BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad. He also said that new ventilators will be provided at all isolation wards of hospitals treating case in Saurashtra.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, one more death of a suspected swine flu patient Sulochana Ravi, 30, a pregnant woman from Rafaliya village of Wankaner taluka was reported from PDU hospital in the city. At present there are 33 patients out of which six are in critical condition, four are on ventilators.

As per government reports, 18 more cases were reported from the state on Wednesday six from Ahmedabad, five from Rajkot, one each from Vadodara City and Amreli City, two from Jamnagar, and two from Bhavnagar.

The state death toll is 162, with one death of Ghansham Patel, 28, in Ahmedabad Civil Hospital while on Tuesday, two deaths were reportedseven-year-old girl Vali Karshan in Guru Gobind Singh Hospital Jamnagar City and 47-year-old woman Rukya Fakir in Sir T General Hospital in Bhavnagar City.

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Courier man Porbandar's first swine flu suspect.

A native of Porbandar, who works for a courier company in Pune, became the first suspected swine flu patient from this port town on Saturday night.

The 21-year-old, who was admitted to Porbandar government hospital, has been shifted to GG Hospital in Jamnagar as his condition got worsened.

Meanwhile, his throat swab samples and blood samples have been sent for testing, the reports of which are to arrive on Monday morning.

Sources said the man works in a private courier company in Pune where swine flu cases were reported and had returned home recently on leave.

"He was admitted to isolation ward of Bhavsingh Hospital in Porbandar on Friday night as he had high fever," a hospital source said. He added, "His condition is stable now.

We are monitoring his temperature and trying to control it. We are awaiting reports, which will come on Monday morning."

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Government revises swine flu toll to 28.

After days of denial, the central government Wednesday revised the number of swine flu deaths to 28 from 25 though no fresh deaths were reported. The country also reported 216 new cases of Influenza A (H1N1), taking the total number of infected people to 2,243.

The cumulative deaths reported till now are 28 - Pune (13), Bangalore (5), Mumbai (3), Nasik (3), Ahmedabad (1), Chennai (1), Vadodara (1) and Thiruvananthapuram (1), the health ministry said.

The addition in death toll was one from Mumbai and two from Nashik. However, the ministry did not give details of the deaths. Till Tuesday, the health ministry had maintained that there were only 25 deaths.

It also said that 216 laboratory confirmed cases were reported Wednesday of which Mumbai had 48, Pune, 36, Nashik, Aurangabad, Rajkot and Latur three each. While Nanded reported two cases, Nagpur had 13 and Dhule had five fresh cases.

Similarly, Ratnagiri and Beed reported 2 cases each, while Buldhana Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Satara, Dibrugarh, Jamnagar, Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Daman reported one case.

Down south, Chennai reported 30 cases, Coimbatore nine, Bangalore 17 and Mangalore one case. In Delhi, 25 fresh cases were reported and Gurgaon had three cases. Two people were tested positive for the virus in Surat.

The health ministry said so far 11,724 people have been tested out of which 2,243 are positive for Influenza A (H1N1). Of the total positive cases, 758 have been discharged.

Jamnagar City News Samachar – Swine Flu Nature Cures Gujarat India

Nature Cures More Herbs for Swine Flu.

The tradition of Ayurveda offers us yet another natural, herbal approach to stave off flu and "swine" flu.

Next to the Lotus, Basil is perhaps the most sacred plant of India. Basil opens the heart and mind.

Basil gives the protection of the divine by clearing the aura and strengthening the immune system.

"The anti-flu property of Tulsi has been discovered by medical experts across the world quite recently. Tulsi improves the body's overall defense mechanism including its ability to fight viral diseases. It was successfully used in combating Japanese Encephalitis and the same theory applies to swine flu." Dr Bhupesh Patel, a lecturer at Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar City is also of the view that Tulsi can play an important role in controlling swine flu.

"Tulsi can control swine flu and it should be taken in fresh form. Juice or paste of at least 20-25 medium sized leaves should be consumed twice a day on an empty stomach." This increases the resistance of the body and, thereby, reduces the chances of inviting swine flu," believes Patel.

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Three test negative for Swine Flu in Gujarat.

Three suspected swine flu cases, one staff nurse and two others who travelled from Kuwait, tested negative for swine flu today, government officials said.

They were admitted in the civil hospital here while the results of three samples sent to Delhi yesterday are still awaited.

"We have still not got the result of three samples sent to National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). These three samples were sent from Baroda and Surat," principal secretary of health department Ravi Saxena said.

Meanwhile, a report from Jamnagar District added that one blood sample of a woman who came to the city from London have been sent to NCDC in Delhi to check for swine flu after she developed symptoms.

Saxena added that the state health machinery is fully equipped to handle the situation and there was no need to panic.