The Health Bureau (SSM) has announced that a 92-year-old local woman inflicted with chronic diseases is in a critical condition after being infected with influenza.
According to an SSM statement on Saturday, the woman came down with shortness of breath on Friday, after which she was taken to the private Kiang Wu Hospital where she was hospitalised and diagnosed with influenza A complicated with double pneumonia.
The statement said that as the woman’s condition did not improve after treatment, she was put on a ventilator and transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) later that day.
She was in a critical condition at the time of Saturday’s statement.
The statement said that the patient had not received a seasonal influenza jab. None of her family members living with her had come down with flu symptoms, the statement said.
Kiang Wu Hospital reported the case to the Health Bureau on Saturday.
