The Ministry of Heath has instructed hospitals to test all cases of bronchitis and patients suffering from breathing difficulties for swine flu following the Kingdom's first death from the virus in a Dammam hospital Saturday. According to an official the ministry move is to “increase caution” in hospitals and does not call into question the effectiveness of the ministry's WHO-certified immunizations. The ministry also announced Tuesday that a team had been formed to conduct an in-depth investigation into the death of Saleh Al-Shehri and that it had already had contact with Al-Shehri's family and visited the private hospital that the family accuses of negligence in failing to correctly diagnose him and administer the appropriate treatment in time. The committee is tasked with providing the ministry with a detailed report on Al-Shehri's death including the procedures followed by the hospital in his diagnosis and treatment.
