India: TN under-reporting H1N1 deaths

Via Times of India :

" CHENNAI: H1N1 continues to kill people in your city, but someone doesn't want you to know it. Test results and death certificates in TOI's possession show that at least three women died of H1N1 in the city in the last three weeks, but their names are yet to be listed in the H1N1 death records.

This means that Tamil Nadu, which has been taking credit for keeping the viral infection under control, has been under-reporting H1N1 cases. The state has shown just seven H1N1 deaths as against 767 in Maharashtra, 346 in Gujarat, 225 in Karnataka, 118 each in Delhi and Kerala, and 85 in Andhra Pradesh since May 2009. While director of public health Dr RT Porkai Pandian maintains that only six people in the state have so far died because of the infection — and all from outside Chennai — since January 2010, TOI has accessed medical results of three women in the city who tested positive for H1N1 and died soon after."