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Describing the patient’s condition as “stable”, he said Rambabu was under an oxygen tent and would be put on a ventilator if necessary. KAKINADA: One person was admitted in the Government General Hospital on Sunday with suspected swine flu, M Raghavendra Rao, the hospital’s superintendent said.Rao told TOI that the patient, Bathula Rambabu, a resident of Thammavaram in Kakinada rural mandal, had been suffering from fever from September 26 after returning from Tirupati.Rambabu had been under treatment at a private hospital before being shifted to the GGH with suspected swine flu symptoms, Rao said.Rao said it is not possible to conduct Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT PCR) test to confirm the swine flu as the patient had already been under treatment for the past five days..