<p>A driver from Pune who had been reportedly diagnosed with rare nerve disorder <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/condition-of-64-year-old-gbs-patient-in-mumbai-stable-23479983" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)</strong></a> died in a city hospital during treatment, health officials said on Monday, reported the PTI.</p>
<p>The latest fatality of a 37-year-old driver took the toll of suspected and confirmed deaths linked to GBS in Pune to seven.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the number of suspected GBS cases rose to 192 after eight more infections were recorded. The tally of confirmed cases is 167, while 21 patients are on ventilator support.</p>
<p>"The deceased worked as a driver in Pune. He was initially brought to a city-based hospital following complaints of weakness in the lower limbs," Pune civic health officials said, according to the PTI.</p>
<p>His relatives didn't admit him to Pune hospital and instead took him to Nipani in Karnataka on February 1.</p>
<p>He was subsequently admitted to a Sangli-based hospital by his relatives where he was administered IVIG injections, a treatment following the GBS outbreak in Pune, they said.</p>
<p>"On February 5, the relatives of the patient took a discharge against the medical advice (from Sangli) and admitted him in the ICU of Pune municipal corporation-run Kamala Nehru Hospital on the same day, according to the officials, as per the PTI.</p>
<p>He suffered supra-ventricular tachycardia, a heart rhythm disorder during treatment.</p>
<p>"He suffered a cardiac arrest on February 9 and died," the officials added.</p>
<p>The officials said that of the 192 suspected cases, 167 patients were diagnosed with GBS.</p>
<p>Among 192 cases, 39 patients are from Pune municipal corporation areas, 91 are from newly-added villages in the civic area, 29 from Pimpri Chinchwad civic body, 25 are from Pune rural region and eight are from other districts.</p>
<p>Among these cases, 91 patients have been discharged till now, 48 are in ICU, and 21 are on a ventilator," according to the release from the state health department.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/gbs-outbreak-who-arrives-amid-rising-guillain-barre-syndrome-cases-23478506" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)</strong></a> last week sealed 19 private RO plants in the Nanded village area, the epicentre of the Guillain-Barr&eacute; syndrome (GBS) outbreak in Pune, after tests confirmed that the water from these facilities was unfit for drinking, officials said on Wednesday, reported the PTI.</p>
<p>The now-sealed privately owned reverse-osmosis (RO) plants, located in the Dhayari-Nanded area, supplied bottled water to a large number of people in the vicinity.</p>
<p>(with PTI inputs)</p><p>
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GBS outbreak in Pune: Driver from Pune, diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome died in a city hospital taking toll to 7 while confirmed case tally now 167

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