With the death of one more person, the number of swine flu deaths in Indore has gone up to twelve since January 2013, a medical officer said today.
A 35-year-old man from Sukhaliya Colony, who was admitted to CHL hospital here on March 20, died of swine flu yesterday, the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) official Dr G L Sodhi said.
Out of the twelve victims, eight were from nearby cities, while four were from Indore, he said.
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Meanwhile, Indore Collector Akash Tripathi held a high-level meeting of district health officials and heads of private hospitals.
During the meeting, Tripathi issued instructions to the health officials to increase surveillance and publicity campaign to make people aware about the disease, testing facilities and drugs availability, another official said.
Tripathi announced setting up of a control room for H1N1 and said that screening centres had been set up in Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital as well as the district hospital.