A 35-year-old woman here has died of swine flu, taking the death toll in the city due to the disease to three this month, an official said on Tuesday.
The woman died on Saturday, but her test report confirming her death due to H1N1 virus was received on Tuesday.
"The woman, a resident of nearby Mhow, was admitted to a private hospital in Indore on January 17. The sample of her swab was sent to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhopal next day for examination," district in-charge of Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP) Dr Amit Malakar told PTI.
"The woman died during treatment on Saturday. We received the test report from AIIMS (Bhopal) today, in which she was found to be H1N1 positive," he said.
Malakar, however, claimed that delay in receiving the woman's test report did not have any effect on her treatment.
"The woman was given Tamiflu medicine, as her symptoms were that of swine flu. But she could not be saved despite the efforts of doctors," he said.
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There is no virology laboratory in Indore and samples are sent to AIIMS Bhopal for the examination, he added.
As per the official figures, H1N1 infection has been confirmed in nine patients of local hospitals this month.
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