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Filipino swine-flu victim died after being given wrong medicine
Jul 31, 2009, 4:20 GMT
Hong Kong - A 37-year-old swine-flu victim, Dolores Bauzon, died after being given the wrong medicine by a Hong Kong private clinic, a media report said Friday.
Bauzon, who developed a fever and sore throat a day after arriving in Hong Kong on June 28, was given antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections rather than antiviral drugs used to tackle influenza, the Standard newspaper said.
The newspaper did not identify the clinic that initially treated the woman who was the second victim to die of swine flu in Hong Kong.
Bauzon, who left a husband and six-month-old baby in Luzon to work as a domestic helper in Hong Kong, died on July 27, some 20 days after being admitted to hospital in critical condition.
Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection controller Thomas Tsang Ho-fai said the woman died because proper treatment for swine flu was delayed. The antiviral drugs are more effective if given during the first 72 hours of the onset of flu.
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