Swine Flu in India

When swine flu reached Indian shores, it was initially thought the strain wasnt too virulent. For months, no deaths had been reported. But then, in just a span of 10 days, the young and the old began to succumb to H1N1. Pune, the second biggest city in Maharashtra, was labelled as the swine flu capital of India as it was the worst affected.

NDTV sent me to cover this developing crisis. While I delivered daily reports for my channel, in this piece we tried to analyse where the government and health care system had failed. Were the deaths caused because of human negligence or were they unavoidable as the victims were confronted by a deadly virus? Was India prepared to tackle the H1N1 onslaught?

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• swine flu
• India
• Pune