GAYA: A private medical practitioner has been detained and quarantined for intruded into the highly protected isolation ward of Anugrah Narain Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH) and allegedly distributing Ayurvedic medicine among the inmates on Sunday night.
Gaya SSP Rajiv Mishra said a case would be lodged against the doctor under IPC, Epidemic Law and Disaster Management Act after the hospital superintendent’s report. The source and supplier of Ayurvedic medicine to the doctor was being ascertained.
ANMMCH deputy superintendent and nodal officer of the anti-Covid operations in the district, Dr NK Paswan, said the doctor is a private practitioner in the town. How he managed to reach the highly-protected isolation ward was being ascertained. It was also a case of breach in security, Dr Paswan said.
Medical College police station SHO said the intruder managed to reach the ward as he was in the doctor’s uniform.
At least five persons have tested Covid positive in the district. As per records, there were 16 inmates in the hospital’s isolation ward when the private practitioner entered there.
According to DM Abhishek Singh, 14,126 persons have been quarantined in Gaya district. Of them, 11,832 are under home quarantine while 2,294 are at quarantine centres.
This is for the second time during the ongoing Covid crisis that Gaya doctors have been in the news for the wrong reasons. Earlier, a doctor allegedly posted a false report of a Covid patient’s death. Gaya DM subsequently recommended action against the rumourmongering doctor.
Gaya SSP Rajiv Mishra said a case would be lodged against the doctor under IPC, Epidemic Law and Disaster Management Act after the hospital superintendent’s report. The source and supplier of Ayurvedic medicine to the doctor was being ascertained.
ANMMCH deputy superintendent and nodal officer of the anti-Covid operations in the district, Dr NK Paswan, said the doctor is a private practitioner in the town. How he managed to reach the highly-protected isolation ward was being ascertained. It was also a case of breach in security, Dr Paswan said.
Medical College police station SHO said the intruder managed to reach the ward as he was in the doctor’s uniform.
At least five persons have tested Covid positive in the district. As per records, there were 16 inmates in the hospital’s isolation ward when the private practitioner entered there.
According to DM Abhishek Singh, 14,126 persons have been quarantined in Gaya district. Of them, 11,832 are under home quarantine while 2,294 are at quarantine centres.
This is for the second time during the ongoing Covid crisis that Gaya doctors have been in the news for the wrong reasons. Earlier, a doctor allegedly posted a false report of a Covid patient’s death. Gaya DM subsequently recommended action against the rumourmongering doctor.
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