Min­istry of Health con­firms that Anas­ta­sia "Sta­cy" Ramkissoon died of H1N1. This is the fourth death at­trib­uted to the H1N1 in­fluen­za virus for the year to date.

Ramkisson, 28, died at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mount Hope, on Sat­ur­day night af­ter be­ing con­firmed as hav­ing the H1N1 virus. That was more than two weeks af­ter be­ing ad­mit­ted to the hos­pi­tal for pains re­lat­ed to her preg­nan­cy. Her ba­by died a day af­ter she gave birth.

The post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion de­ter­mined her cause of death to be vi­ral as­so­ci­at­ed pneu­mo­nia.

The Health Min­istry is once again urg­ing the pub­lic to re­ceive a vac­ci­na­tion to pro­tect them­selves from the virus.

A re­lease from the min­istry said, "vac­ci­na­tion is a safe and ef­fec­tive way to pre­vent in­fluen­za or re­duce its sever­i­ty in per­sons at high risk of com­pli­ca­tions.

Groups urged to get the vac­cine are:

�2 Health care work­ers

�2 Chil­dren aged six months to five years

�2 Preg­nant women at any stage of preg­nan­cy

�2 Peo­ple who are 65-years and old­er

�2 Per­sons with chron­ic med­ical con­di­tions such as di­a­betes, heart, lung and kid­ney dis­ease.

As well, the min­istry urged the pub­lic to prac­tice good per­son­al hy­giene to pre­vent the spread of res­pi­ra­to­ry vi­ral in­fec­tions.

Sim­ple mea­sures such as cov­er­ing the mouth when cough­ing and sneez­ing, dis­pos­ing of used tis­sue pa­per, and fre­quent hand-wash­ing are very ef­fec­tive in lim­it­ing the trans­mis­sion of in­fluen­za and oth­er vi­ral ill­ness­es," the re­lease said.

T&T Guardian un­der­stands that there is an­oth­er pait­ent be­ing treat­ed for H1N1 in Mount Hope.