Doctors started to die from pneumonia

A worker of the scientific and practical centre of radiation medicine in Homel has died from pneumonia.

This fact has been confirmed to BelaPAN by the head of the Health Care directorate of Homel regional executive committee Mikalai Vasilkou.

As said by him, the worker of the centre was taken to the emergency hospital with acute respiratory failure. “On Friday we received confirmation from anatomical pathologists that the woman died of hard total pneumonia,” the head of the directorate stated.

As the BelaPAN has found out, the deceased was about 30, she had a maternity leave recently. She worked in the ultrasonography diagnostics department of the centre.

Mikalai Vasilkou added that there are other death cases from pneumonia, but they are to be confirmed by anatomical pathology centres still.

According to the health care directorate, no deaths from A (H1N1) flu are recorded in Homel region.

We remind that on Sunday the deputy Minister of Health Care of Belarus announced that 102 cases of A (H1N1) flu cases have been recorded in Belarus. “In some regions the situation is still tense. Against the background of all the viruses which have been confirmed in the cases of disease, 102 cases, whch makes 0.3%, was A/H1N1 virus,” Valyantsina Kachan stated on Sunday on air of the First Belarusian TV channel.

At the same time the head of the Health Care committee of Minsk city executive committee Zmitser Panevich stated during an online press-conference at a website of the Belarusian TV and Radio Company that the number of deaths from pneumonia has grown.

It is hard to name the exact number of persons who died from pneumonia and A/H1N1 virus, as tests for swine flu are not passed by all the ill persons in the country. At the same time, it should be noted that in the period of pneumonia many doctors and medical nurses who have to work with the sick every day, haven’t been vaccinated even against seasonal flu. There is no swine flu vaccines in Belarus so far.