Hyderabad, Jan 24 (IANS) Fifty new cases of swine flu have been reported in Telangana, officials said Saturday.
With this, the number of swine flu cases in the state has mounted to 290.
Government-run hospitals in Hyderabad have sent blood samples of 100 more people for H1N1 tests to the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) here.
Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) director L. Narendranath Saturday told reporters that one woman died of swine flu Friday, taking the toll to 21.
Narendranath, who is also the government's spokesman on swine flu, said 12 people died last month and nine this month.
He said 150 beds have been arranged at Osmania Hospital and NIMS to deal with the increasing number of cases.
Patients, who don't require life support system, are being shifted from Gandhi Hospital, the nodal centre for swine flu, to other hospitals so that doctors can attend to critical cases.
The authorities have arranged sufficient number of beds and medicines at major government-run hospitals in Hyderabad, which along with neighbouring Ranga Reddy district, account for 90 percent of the cases.
The spokesman said 24 mobile medical teams, with two doctors and an auxiliary nurse each, have been pressed into service in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy.
The teams are also screening the inmates of those houses, which reported positive cases.
Two civilians were killed and two were injured in firing in several places in the city of Langley
Sambhal Violence: Alert after arrest of Masjid Committee chief, police increased security
The police were completely alert regarding the arrest of Jama Masjid Committee's Sadar Zafar Ali.
Congress too used Vajpayee's Policies, says Modi
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Accused of copying the UPA government's polices, Prime Minister Naren
South Africa cricket team batsman David Miller has shared an emotional post after the defeat in t
Virat Kohli is a celebrity in this country whom everyone wants to meet. As soon as his fans see h
PM Modi targeted SP: Said - Mafia kept on apologizing in UP, mafiaists are suffering
PM Modi laid the foundation stone of Government Medical College in Kushinagar district. Along wit
India saved 35 thousand crores by buying oil from Russia, and US-Europe objected
Recently, the meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sam
Nirbhaya case: what is going on in the minds of the culprits, the secret may soon open
nirbhaya case: The Delhi High Court has directed the Tihar Jail Administration on the plea of
2 FIRs Filed Against Tablighi Workers For Spreading Disease In Hospital, Centre
दिल्ली की एक शीर्ष गृह विभाग की आधिका
The former Prime Minister of the country Dr. Manmohan Singh passed away late last night. He breat
