FLU LATEST: Four deaths, non-urgent ops cancelled

Rotherham General Hospital has cancelled all surgery apart from emergencies after the town was hit with four swine flu deaths.

Three - including 44-year-old Dean Brown (pictured) - were patients at the hospital, while the fourth person, believed to be a 16-year-old, died at home.

All had swine flu, but also had other underlying medical problems, the hospital said.

The hospital has cancelled all non-urgent surgery because of a shortage of bed space as a result of flu cases.

Dean, from East Herringthorpe, succumbed to the H1N1 strain of the flu virus last Wednesday.

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