In BiH five victims virus AH1N1

Two patients died this week in Sarajevo, and the earlier three more in Banja Luka.

Five people have died since the beginning of the year in hospitals in Bosnia and Herzegovina due to complications from swine flu, announced the Sarajevo media, stating that, with two patients who died this week, before killing three other patients in the University Clinical Center in Banja Luka .

The Head of the intensive assistance of the Banja Luka Clinical Center Pedja Kovacevic said he was there from the beginning of the growing number of hospitalized patients with swine flu.

"Received and treated 16 patients with severe pneumonia, three of whom died, and proven they influenza AH1N1," Kovacevic said.

According to him, the deceased belonged to the risk group in which, after infection with swine flu, can develop complications from chronic diseases and age.

At the hospital in Banja Luka is currently being treated five patients infected with the mutated virus of swine flu.

risk groups

This week in the University Clinical Center of Sarajevo, due to complications following infection with swine flu, died on 32-year-old mothers of E. R. Knight, whose child the doctors managed to save.

On Thursday at a hospital in Zenica from swine flu died 62-year-old woman who claimed that she was a chronic patient.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina has not declared an epidemic of swine flu, but authorities claim that there is no reason to panic because all the deaths have been in people belonging to risk groups.

Population are recommended usual precautions, such as strengthening the immune system, enhanced hand hygiene and avoid places of mass gatherings.

• 5 Feb, 2016
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