After the A H1N1 death cases happen in Malacca and Johor, a 4 years old Chinese girl death under the cause of influenza infection at Sunday afternoon in Sibu hopital. It was the first A H1N1 death case happened in Sarawak for this year.
Sarawak Environment and Public Health Minister Datuk Seri Huang Shun Ge announced that the girl died due to influenza A infection on Sunday afternoon.
He pointed out that the girl was transferred from the Bintulu Hospital to Sibu Hospital on April 14, and directly send into the intensive care unit for treatment, but the condition has not improved, and at Sunday afternoon confirmed death due to deterioration.
Under the sand of Health statistics, from January to April 4, Sarawak received a total of 27 confirmed cases of influenza A type.
Since influenza A outbreak last year so far, Sarawak received a total of 1782 suspected cases, of which 751 for the confirmed cases.
Source: Sinchew
No comments:
Post a Comment