A 60-year-old man, identified with Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) from Warje Malwadi, died at Sassoon Common Hospital on Friday. That is the fifth suspected GBS loss of life in Pune.
The person died resulting from respiratory failure with autonomic dysfunction and quadriplegia. He additionally was affected by hypertension. In keeping with Pune district well being authorities, the person was admitted on January 16. He had extreme signs and was within the medical intensive care unit and handed away on January 31.
The rely of suspected GBS deaths has now gone as much as 5 and the entire variety of suspected circumstances is at 149. Three new circumstances had been reported on Saturday. Of the 149 sufferers, a complete of 124 have been identified with GBS. 28 individuals are presently on ventilator help.
State well being authorities stated that 29 sufferers had been from Pune Municipal Company space, 82 from villages which have been merged in PMC areas, 17 from Pimpri Chinchwad, 13 from Pune rural and eight are from different districts.
Dr Babita Kamalapurkar, Joint director of well being, Maharashtra stated that PMC and district well being authorities have been instructed to extend surveillance actions.
“Nonetheless, residents mustn’t panic. Preventive and management measures are being carried out. Care needs to be taken to boil water for consuming functions. Chorus from consuming partially cooked meat,” Dr Kamalapurkar stated.
