Lucknow: The rising number of cases of swine flu in Lucknow, 56 so far, has started a blame game between the state health department and the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI). Till Monday evening, 56 confirmed cases afflicted with the deadly H1N1 virus have been reported from Lucknow alone. According to Lucknow chief medical officer Dr SNS Yadav, all these cases of swine flu in the state has been reported from Lucknow alone. Only two patients had come from Madhya Pradesh. According to him 90 per cent of these cases were in and around the SGPGI on Rae Bareli road involving its staff, technicians or patients from neighbouring areas like Telibagh, who visited the SGPGI OPD for treatment. Dr Yadav said the state health department is considering undertaking a research study in collaboration of the Department Community Medicine at King George Medical University (KGMU) and the Community Health Centre at Mohanlalganji near the SGPGI in Lucknow to understand this phenomenon. “I have already spoken to the professor and head of the community medicine department at KGMU Dr JV Singh to undertake the study in the near future, “ said Dr Yadav. Head of the Department of Microbiology at SGPGI, Dr T N Dhole, differed on Dr Yadav’s assessment. “We at the SGPGI are not producing the H1NI virus. It is in the atmosphere and therefore people are reporting it and we at SGPGI are diagnosing and treating it.”