RAWALPINDI, Jan 30 A suspected swine flu patient, who died in Benazir Hospital on Thursday, has tested negative for H1N1 virus.

Duty medical superintendent Dr Amir Niazi confirmed to Dawn that her throat swab results received on Saturday from National Institute of Health were negative and the patient Mehram Jan, 62, was not suffering from swine flu.

The doctor said the hospital received results of three swine flu suspects and all of them were negative and there was no patient in the hospital.

Mehram Jan was brought to the hospital from the AJK a week ago with symptoms of influenza and high fever and was admitted to general ward. When her condition deteriorated the doctors sent her throat swab to the NIH.

The two other patients, Razia and Falwaja, were also suspected of ctrating swine flu but their test reports, too, were negative and they would be treated as normal patients.

Only one patient also a woman died of swine flu in Holy Family Hospital in December last year and she tested positive a day after her death.

The HFH doctors later tested all the relatives of the woman and the doctors who treated her but no other case tested positive.