70-year-old Swiss tourist dies of swine flu in India

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JODHPUR, India – A 70-year-old foreign tourist has died of swine flu in Jodhpur as the toll in Rajasthan has gone up to more than 120.

JODHPUR, India – A 70-year-old foreign tourist has died of swine flu in Jodhpur as the toll in Rajasthan has gone up to more than 120. The Swiss tourist, Anne Marie, was taken ill while she was visiting Jaisalmer where she was treated at a private hospital.

When her condition deteriorated as she suffered from acute pneumonia, Anne Marie was shifted to MDM Hospital, Jodhpur, on Wednesday. She was put on the ventilator but died on Wednesday morning. Her blood test report, which came after her death, confirmed she was suffering from H1N1 influenza.

Describing swine flu as an โ€˜epidemicโ€™, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has asked the tourists to take medical help at the earliest if they suffered from symptoms like fever, cough and breathlessness. Speaking to a television channel, Ms. Raje said patients often went to hospitals in the last stages. โ€œWe have set up a task force and are providing diagnostic services and medicines free of cost in hospitals,โ€ she said.

This being the peak tourist season, the government has also decided to distribute pamphlets at airports and railway stations to warn foreign visitors about the spread of swine flu and what measures to take. Masks will be provided to all patients who visit the swine flu treatment centres to prevent the infection from spreading, Ashok Panagariya, chairperson of the State Task Force on swine flu said.

The government has set up isolation wards for swine flu patients and provided ventilators for the critical ones. Leave of all doctors has been cancelled and Assembly meetings have been done away with.

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