Is mumbai businessman 5th swine flu victim?

Updated On: 10 August, 2009 07:35 AM IST | | Alisha Coelho

Malaria patient Vineet Gandhi, who died at Kasturba Hospital yesterday, was transferred there on suspicion of H1N1; test results today will reveal the truth

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Is mumbai businessman 5th swine flu victim?

Malaria patient Vineet Gandhi, who died at Kasturba Hospital yesterday, was transferred there on suspicion of H1N1; test results today will reveal the truth

Was it swine flu that claimed a second victim at Kasturba Hospital yesterday? The death of businessman Vineet Gandhi (32) is mired in questions that will only be answered when his test reports arrive today.

Gandhi was transferred to Kasturba from Jaslok Hospital on suspicion of swine flu.

But state health officials yesterday questioned the need for the transfer, given that he had already been diagnosed with falciparum malaria. Gandhi died of convulsions soon after he was transferred to the Chinchpokli hospital yesterday morning.