A paramedic leaves a room with swine flu patients at PIMS in Islamabad. PHOTO: AFP
LAHORE: A 57-year-old man died in Lahore on Tuesday after allegedly contracting swine flu, Express News reported.
According to Punjab Secretary Health Jawad Rafique Mulk, the deceased, Altaf Hussain Shirazi, was a resident of Sargodha and was undergoing treatment in Lahore.
"A case has been registered against hospital authorities over a delay in issuing a report on his medical condition. It has been sent to the Department of International Health," Mulk said.
He added that the authorities have sought help from the organisation.
As a precautionary measure, bloods samples of the hospital staff as well as the family of deceased were collected for tests.
Since mid-December, almost 700 people in India have died following a swine flu outbreak, BBC reported. Officials had a tough time controlling the deadly outbreak.
Read: 700 people die of swine flu outbreak in India since mid-December
The number of cases has doubled since the epidemic erupted in December to almost 11,000 in India.
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