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Bahujan Vikas Agadhi wins Vasai-Virar civic polls

May 31, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Mumbai, May 31 (IANS) Hitendra Thakur-led Bahujan Vikas Agadhi Monday won the first ever election to the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation, on the outskirts of north Mumbai, capturing 55 of the 89 wards.

‘We had expected to win over 50 wards and we got it. I thank all those who had faith in the party and those who elected members of our party,’ Thakur said.

Vivek Pandit-led Jan Andolan Samiti contested from 38 wards and won 19. Out of 48 wards the Congress contested, it won only two.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) failed to open their account from any of the 46 wards they contested, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won one ward out of the 17 contested.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena won from one ward out of 17 contested, while Shiv Sena won from three wards out of 40. Independents won in eight wards.

As many as 383 candidates spread over 89 wards had contested the elections. One candidate of Bahujan Vikas Agadhi was declared elected unopposed.

The election took place Sunday with approximately 43 percent of the 6.5 lakh electorate exercising their franchise, said election officers.

There were 603 polling booths with around 3,500 polling staff on duty.

Situated on the outskirts of north Mumbai, the Vasai taluka had four municipal councils — Vasai, Nala Sopara, Virar and Navghar-Manickpur — and 72 gram panchayats. They were all dissolved and the municipal corporation was formed July 3, 2009.

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Institute to open 250-bed hospital

May 27, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Construction likely to start by year-end

In Order to deal with the burgeoning patient rush at the region’s premier institute, the PGI will soon add a 250-bed hospital adjacent to the existing Nehru Hospital and the Kairon block.

The focus would be to provide quality care to cancer patients at the new block as 100 beds out of the total 250 beds would be kept exclusively for the cancer patients.

The addition of the new block will be the first addition of general beds block after the Nehru Hospital, which was built over four decades ago and now is saturated with the capacity of having nearly 1,300 beds.

The addition of the new block is a part of the PGI’s expansion plan, which also includes the completion of the Advanced Trauma Centre.

“The entire bed strength of the hospital is around 1,600 beds which includes beds in the specialty blocks like the Advanced Eye Centre, Advanced Cardiac Centre and the Advanced Paediatric Centre. Going by the patient rush, the addition of the new block would strength the PGI’s patient care index,” added an official. The construction of the new block might begin by end of the current year or in the first quarter of next year.

As far as the statistics coming out from the hospital, the premier referral hospital appears to be barely meeting the requirements of those thronging its premises. As per the official statistics at the hospital there are around 60,000 annual admissions in its wards and almost a 100 percent bed occupancy ratio.

Meanwhile, along with the beds for general patients, the hospital is also contemplating to add more private wards in the hospital’s new block.

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Voting for Haryana Municipal elections begin

May 20, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Chandigarh, May 20 (ANI): The polling for the Haryana Municipal elections began on Thursday at around 7: 30 a.m. and the process would continue till 4 p.m.

“About 21 lakh voters will decide the fate of 4100 candidates in the areas of one municipal corporation, ten municipal councils and 28 municipal committees are spread over 19 districts of the state,” said State Election Commissioner Dharamveer.

It has been reported that there are total 737 wards for these polls out of which 414 are reserved and 259 wards have been reserved for women candidates.

The electronic voting machines are being used for the first time in the municipal elections in the state. (ANI)

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Conjoined twins ready to go home after surgery

May 12, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 12 (ANI): Formerly conjoined twins, Sita and Gita, who were separated at Delhi”s Batra Hospital earlier in April, are now ready to be sent home.

The twins were separated by a team of 27 doctors comprising of paediatric surgeons, orthopaedists, plastic surgeons and critical care specialists on April 5 in a surgery which took over 14 hours.

“After the surgery, the twins were in intensive care for a few days. They were later on shifted to the wards. Nutritionally, weight-wise, diet-wise, they are progressing very well,” said Dr Sanjeev Bagai, CEO of Batra Hospital and Research Centre.

The doctors at the Batra Hosptial have linked with a local hospital in Patna to keep tabs on the twins, as they will betaken over there after being discharged from the hospital.

“Earlier, it used to be so much trouble holding them. I am elated now. It”s easier to hold them now. Me and my husband hold each of them,” said Nirmala, mother of the twins.

The twins will be brought back to New Delhi later this year for a regular check-up.

Sita and Gita had common intestinal and urinary tracts. Parts of their pelvises, spines, hipbones and legs were also fused.

The surgery involved separating their spinal cords, pelvises and genitals, reproductive and urinary tracts. (ANI)

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Nurses campaign for more staff

April 13, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Nurses in Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales mid north coast have today started a campaign for more staff at the Base hospital’s Emergency Department (ED).

The Nurses Association says its members are reaching breaking point because of the heavy workloads and low staffing levels.

The union says a key concern is management’s failure to meet a mandated nurse-to-patient ratio in the ED.

One senior nurse who does not want to be named says it is hard to believe conditions in the Emergency Department

“Waiting times in the waiting room are getting longer and longer and the mental health problems that should be on the wards are actually being locked in little consult rooms with a security guard,” she said.

“That’s not appropriate safe care for anybody, it’s not safe on the staff [and] it’s not safe on the patients.”

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Prostituted girl was in state care

April 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Child advocates are horrified at revelations that a 12-year-old girl used as a prostitute in Tasmania was a ward of the state at the time she was abused.

They have accused the child protection system of letting her down and exposing the government to legal action.

The girl’s pimp was recently jailed for up to a decade.

The Children’s Commissioner believes the government could be sued over the case.

It is now understood that she was under a care and protection order at the time of the crimes, meaning the state was her guardian.

The commissioner, Paul Mason, says that in the wake of compensation payouts to abused wards of the state, the government could be exposed to legal action in this case.

“It may be that this child has been let down by their ‘super parent’ and that their ‘super parent’ owed them a duty which has been breached,” he said.

“Maybe this child has an action for damages against the ‘super parent’, against the taxpayer.”

The Human Services Department has declined to comment due to ongoing court proceedings related to the matter.

Mr Mason has called for an urgent review of what is happening to children in state care.

He says there has been work preventing children from coming into the care system but the state must now ensure their well-being under protection.

“Last year we had this massive national apology to children who were in state care and what’s going to happen?”

“Do we wait another 40 years and then have another national apology and and so on into the future or do we do something different now?”

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Hospital patient calls 000 to get nurse

March 31, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

An elderly patient on the New South Wales north coast has used his own mobile phone to ring a nurse for help.

The Lismore Base Hospital’s Medical Staff Council says the patient used the phone because the emergency call buttons in that ward were not working.

Staff say the patients were issued with bells to ring the nurses for help.

The council’s spokesman Doctor Chris Ingall says there has been a downgrading of services because of inadequate funding.

“We’ve got to a point where it’s passed services and we’re looking at infrastructure,” he said.

“We’re looking at buzzer systems in wards, which are critical things. People are pretty crook in Lismore Base Hospital they’re not just mildly unwell.

“It’s a lot of money to replace the system, but it’s a critical system.”

The head of the North Coast Area Health Service, Chris Crawford says he is angry to hear of the patient’s ordeal and has personally apologised to the elderly man.

“I originally received assurances from Lismore Base Hospital that they would have a permanent system in two to three weeks and that they had an adequate interim solution,” he said.

“The situation surrounding [the patient's] circumstances has indicated that Lismore Base Hospital had not kept to the time table that they had indicated to me.”

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Questions raised over adults and children sharing wards

March 12, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The New South Wales opposition is calling for answers on how many hospitals are housing adults and children in the same wards.

Earlier this week, state parliament was told that a number of women had been put in the children’s ward at Port Macquarie because of bed shortages.

Dr Richard Matthews from the department says adults and children sometimes do share wards but they are kept in separate rooms.

“We take our responsibilities in child protection extremely seriously,” he said.

The opposition’s Jillian Skinner says the practice goes against the recommendations of the Garling inquiry.

“The minister needs to come clean about exactly how many hospitals this is happening in,” she said.

She says 2,500 hospital beds have been closed since Labor took office.

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Questions raised over adults and children sharing wards

March 12, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The New South Wales opposition is calling for answers on how many hospitals are housing adults and children in the same wards.

Earlier this week, state parliament was told that a number of women had been put in the children’s ward at Port Macquarie because of bed shortages.

Dr Richard Matthews from the department says adults and children sometimes do share wards but they are kept in separate rooms.

“We take our responsibilities in child protection extremely seriously,” he said.

The opposition’s Jillian Skinner says the practice goes against the recommendations of the Garling inquiry.

“The minister needs to come clean about exactly how many hospitals this is happening in,” she said.

She says 2,500 hospital beds have been closed since Labor took office.

17 students test positive for swine flu in Pune

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Pune (Maharashtra), Sep 9(ANI): Seventeen new positive cases of swine flu were reported from Maharashtra’s Pune district on Wednesday.

All the cases have been reported from B K Birla School’s hostel at Shirgaon in Pune district, where 17 students have tested positive for the deadly virus and are undergoing treatment at various hospitals.

According to officials, all students infected with the virus have shown improvement in their condition following treatment.

The hostel houses around 500 students and most of the parents have taken their wards home after the spread of the infection. (ANI)

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Hospital food in UK found to be worse than prison meals

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 1 (ANI): A new study has shown that food provided at hospitals in the UK is worse than that served to prison inmates, despite huge amounts of money spent by the patients.

According to the Bournemouth University study, jail diets were far “better than most civilians have”, and researchers found people on NHS wards do not get the same standard and staff do not check if the food is eaten.

Around 40 percent of patients are malnourished when they arrive at a hospital, but the situation does not tend to improve while they are there.

“Hospital patients don’t consume enough. If you are using food as a means of treatment then it’s not working,” Sky News quoted Professor John Edwards as saying.

“And from the work we’ve done we know that people who sit round a table eat a lot more, but this doesn’t happen in hospitals,” he said.

The study found that trays are removed by cleaning staff so that doctors do not know how much was eaten.

In addition, set mealtimes mean patients undergoing tests may miss food altogether, and the researchers said that there was a lack of enough support for those who needed help eating and drinking.

In contrast, prison food was found to be cheaper and healthier.

“If you are in prison then the diet you get is extremely good in terms of nutritional content,” Edwards explained.

“The food that is provided is actually better than most civilians have. There’s a focus on carbohydrates, then there’s the way they prepare the food, it’s very healthy.

“They don’t add salt and there’s relatively little frying of food – if you have a burger then it goes in the oven,” he added.

A spokesman for the Department of Health said that good food was important for a patient’s treatment and experience of NHS services.

“The majority of patients are satisfied with the food they receive in hospitals, and we are working to improve services further,” he stated. (ANI)

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Junior doctors’ strike in Bihar, claims 38 lives

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Patna, Aug 31(ANI): The outdoor and emergency services at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) and the Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) continue to be affected for the fifth day on Monday due to an indefinite strike by 800-odd junior doctors.

According to reports, the doctors strike has so far claimed lives of 38 patients.

“Work at emergency and other wards of the Patna Medical College Hospital in Patna and Darbhanga Medical College Hospital at Darbhanga have been seriously hit by the strike,” a news channel quoted official sources, as saying.

Meanwhile, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that the junior doctors should withdraw the strike as soon as possible.

“The timing of the strike is completely wrong and anti-people. It should have been amicably resolved, instead of resorting to a stir,” Kumar said.

The striking juniors are pressing for introduction of payscale system in place of existing stipend system, which they get in lieu of work while pursuing their postgraduate studies.

The juniors get Rs 13,000 per month as stipend in the first year and it goes up by Rs 1,000 in each of the remaining two years during which they complete the PG course. (ANI)

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Patients suffer as junior doctors strike in Patna continue

August 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Patna, Aug 30 (ANI): Patients here are suffering as the Government and other hospitals in Patna are over crowded due to the junior doctors strike over pay hike.

A common sight at the Nalanda Medical College Hospital (NMCH) is of senior doctors attending patients lying on the floor since there are no vacant beds in the wards.

“We are under a lot of pressure. We are doing our best in treating as many patients as possible. We used to treat 40-50 patients a day. Now, we are seeing 90 patients a day. All the 40 emergency beds are occupied. Patients are now being admitted and even made to lie on the floor,” said Dr Rajendra Narayan Prasad, in-charge of emergency ward at the Nalanda Medical College Hospital.

“There were no arrangements at the PMCH.

The doctors are on strike and they asked us to take our patients somewhere else. Then we came here in the NMCH, but here it’s so crowded,” said Jetendra Kumar, relative of a patient.

Emergency, outpatient and surgery services are the worst hit by the junior doctors strike, which commenced on Thursday.

Hundreds of patients who could afford shifted to private nursing homes. But those who are poor will have to continue waiting for their turn in the already over crowded hospitals. (ANI)

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Maharashtra Govt may allow private hospitals to treat Swine Flu patients

August 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mumbai, Aug.9 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Sunday said that his Government was considering a proposal to allow private hospitals fulfilling Government guidelines to treat swine flu cases.

Chavan on Sunday convened a five-hour-long high-level meeting on the Swine Flu situation in the State, which has seen three of the four H1N1 deaths recorded in the country.

Interacting with the mediamen, Chavan said: “A decision on the issue would be taken in two days after a meeting with private hospital managements.”

“Those private hospitals who are willing to set up isolated wards and follow Government of India’s guidelines would be considered,” he added.

There are, however, no restrictions on private doctors examining suspected cases, Chavan said.

Chavan said people should wear masks in public place.

A doctor should send suspected cases to screening centres, which would take throat swab to get it tested for swine flu, the CM added.

Chavan asked people to restrict movement at public places. He, however, announced that it would be up to school managements to decide on closing the school in view of the swine flu.

Meanwhile, a meeting of all Ganesh mandals and Dahihandi mandals would be convened on Monday to discuss ways of minimising spread of swine flu. It is because hundreds of thousands of people throng the streets during Ganeshotsav and Dahihandi celebrations. (ANI)

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28-year-old swine flu patient critical in Mumbai

August 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mumbai, Aug. 9 (ANI): Condition of a 28-year-old swine flu patient admitted to Dr. L H Hiranandani Hospital in Mumbai was reported to be critical on Sunday.

“Sandeep Gaikwad, a resident of Chandivili is still critical and put on ventilator, but is stable. He is being treated as per doctors’ advise from Kasturba Hospital,” said Manish Joshi, Manager of Dr. L H Hiranandani Hospital.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Sunday said that government is considering a proposal to allow private hospitals to treat swine flu cases.

“A decision on the issue would be taken in two days after a meeting with private hospital managements. Those private hospitals who are willing to set up isolated wards and follow Government of India’s guidelines would be considered,” Chavan said.

Chavan also urged people to restrict themselves from unnecessary outings.

Four persons have succumbed to swine flu. Earlier, a 43-year-old non – resident Indian (NRI) died of swine flu at the City Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad on Sunday.

On Saturday, 53-year-old Fahmida Panwala from Mumbai and 42-year-old teacher Sanjay Tukaram Kokre from Pune had died of swine flu.

On August 3, a 14-year-old schoolgirl Reeda Shaikh had died in Pune. (ANI)

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One more person with symptoms of swine flu quarantined in Tamil Nadu

July 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Coimbatore, July 14 (ANI): One more person with symptoms of the dreaded swine flu was quarantined in Coimbatore.

Presently, he is in the isolation ward of the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital.

The blood samples of a youngster named Harijan (24) who returned to India from Malaysia has been sent to the National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) in New Delhi for further analysis.

So far, nine cases of swine flu have been reported in Tamil Nadu out which, two from Coimbatore were confirmed positive cases.

“Thirteen cases were reported here out of which two were positive and all others were negative. The two positive cases have been treated successfully and sent back home. This is the fourteenth case referred from the nearest district,” said Dr. Durai Kannan, Joint Director, Health Department, Coimbatore Medical College Hospital.

Meanwhile, experts from the New Delhi-based National Institute of Communicable Diseases visited the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital and examined the quarantine wards in the hospital.

“We have come to see the situation. The Joint Director is here and the Regional Director looking after this area,” said Shahai Hussain, Joint Director, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) had declared influenza pandemic last month and advised governments to prepare for a long-term battle against an unstoppable new flu virus.

The WHO had no immediate comment on the case of Tamiflu resistance. (ANI)

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Cleaning agent may help in superbug battle

June 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, June 27 (ANI): A cleaning agent, developed to stop mould growth in bakeries and fish factories, has been found effective in killing hospital superbugs, say researchers.

The research team from Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) have found that agent Byotrol has cut levels of MRSA on wards by one third.

Byotrol, an antimicrobial technology developed by a Manchester-based paint firm, has a polymer-based structure, which enables it to kill bacteria, like MSRA, days after being first applied.

The polymer is said to create a surface tension effect, which operates like a flytrap that literally tears apart the bacteria when they come into contact.

“These are very impressive results. Our study has shown a reduction of one third in levels of MRSA in the ward when the new disinfectant was compared with the gold-standard NHS bleach-based cleaning agent,” the Telegraph quoted Dr Andy Dodgson, consultant microbiologist at the MRI who led the trial as saying.

“The new disinfectant has a clear role to play in helping hospitals in the battle to control HCASIs. Cutting the level of pathogens on the wards rescues the risk to patients of picking up an infection.

“The demonstration of a residual antibacterial effect is a major new discovery which will be an additional weapon for the NHS in the fight against superbugs,” he added.

Stephen Falder, the scientist who invented Byotrol, said: “I suppose you could say this is a prevention for superbugs that almost never happened. I began developing it as a protection to stop mould on paints. It grew from there.”

The study will be published in British Journal of Infection Control. (ANI)

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President writes to Governors to wipe out ragging

June 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, June26 (ANI): Expressing her deep concern over the increasing number of ragging incidents, President Pratibha Patil asked all the Governors and Lt Governors to take steps to eliminate menace of ragging from the educational institutions in their respective states and Union territories.

In a letter written to all the Governors and Lt Governors the President noted that, the perverse practice of ragging has not only become rampant in our educational institutions but also acquired hideous proportions costing the sanity of the institutions and life of some of the students.

The disorderly, aggressive, and inhuman conduct on the part of senior students inflicting physical cruelty and mental torment on the freshers has outraged society at large.

In her letter, ahead of the commencement of the educational calendar, the President has asked her representatives in the state and Union territories, to use their knowledge and wisdom and experience to wipe out this unseemly blot from the educational sector.

The President also pointed that though it is the primary responsibility of the management of educational institutions and the teachers to prevent ragging it would make eminent sense if parents and guardians are mobilized to counsel their wards to behave more responsibly and be supportive in their dealings with their juniors.

The President has also asked the NGOs to create an atmosphere of awareness against ragging and in alleviating the trauma of victims. (ANI)

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One more tests positive for swine flu in Hyderabad

June 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Hyderabad, June 26 (ANI): A foreign national was tested positive for swine flu on Thursday in Hyderabad taking the number of swine flu cases to 17 in Andhra Pradesh.

The fifteen-year-old girl who tested positive for swine flu arrived on June 19 from Hong Kong by Silk Airways. She showed symptoms of swine flu on June 22 and her sample was sent to National Institution of Communicable Diseases (NICD) in Delhi.

After she was found positive for swine flu, nine other passengers who had accompanied her were also quarantined.

“On 22nd the report was sent on the same day. It was tested positive yesterday night from NICD Delhi. So I have isolated the other nine who accompanied her. We have sent the samples to NICD Delhi. This is the first foreign national tested positive in India,” said Dr. K Sudhakar, Physician, Government Chest Hospital, Hyderabad.

Out of the 17 cases reported in Andhra Pradesh, 14 have been treated and discharged, while three are still undergoing treatment. Ten other patients presently under observation are awaiting reports.

Another 45-year-old man who had travelled from Doha has also been admitted in the hospital for suspected HINI infection, after the initial screening at Hyderabad airport showed signs of the flu affliction in him.

So far, a total of 60 persons have been found positive for swine flu across India, out of which 32 patients have been treated as inpatients in isolation wards and discharged.

Out of the total 60 patients, 54 came from abroad while six contracted the disease within the country. In all, 413 suspected cases were quarantined.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) elevated the H1N1 strain to pandemic status earlier this month.

The WHO, in an update on the spread of the new flu strain on Saturday (June 20) had observed that the number of worldwide cases had risen to 44,287, with 180 deaths.

Mexico, United States and Canada have borne the brunt of the illness while research work is still on to formulate an effective vaccine to counter the pandemic. (ANI)

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Swine Flu affects 16 in Hyderabad

June 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Hyderabad, June 24 (ANI): With medical authorities confirming another case of swine flu in Hyderabad, the total number of the affected people in the city turned 16 on Wednesday.

A 30-year-old woman, wife of another swine flu patient who was recently identified as the 15th person found affected by swine flu in the city, has also been found positive with swine flu here.

“We have officially reported 16th case. She is the wife of the 15th case. She is a 30-year-old woman. She has not travelled with him but she had travelled on a different date. So that is why (we are) screening that flight also, three rows in front and three rows back,” said Dr. K. Subbarao of the Government General And Chest Hospital.

Out of the 16 cases, 14 have been discharged, while two are undergoing treatment.

Two suspected persons for swine flu, a 23-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl from Hong Kong, are awaiting reports. While another 45-year-old man who just travelled from Doha has also been admitted in the hospital for suspected HINI infection, after initial screening at Hyderabad airport

So far, a total of 59 people have tested positive for swine flu across India, of whom 32 patients have been treated as inpatients in isolation wards and discharged.

Out of the total 59 patients, 53 arrived from abroad while six contracted the disease in the country. A total 412 suspected cases were quarantined.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) elevated the H1N1 strain to pandemic status earlier this month.

The WHO, in an update on the spread of the new flu strain earlier on Saturday (June 20), said the number of worldwide cases had risen to 44,287, with 180 deaths.

Mexico, United States and Canada have borne the brunt of the illness while research work is still on to formulate an effective vaccine to counter the pandemic. (ANI)

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