KOLKATA: Four doctors of Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata (MCH) tested positive to Covid-19 on Monday. All four are attached with the gynaecology department where a new mother tested positive to coronavirus two days after delivery. On Sunday, three other doctors of the hospital — two from the same department and a post-graduate trainee from the medicine department — had tested positive to Covid-19.
A woman from Narkeldanga had a C-section on April 10. She tested positive to the virus three days later. The hospital had drawn up a list of about 50 healthcare providers — who had come in contact with her — who would be sent to quarantine and have their samples tested.
But the doctors alleged that not all of them were quarantined and that samples of only 30 were tested. “Some of us were asked to continue working either in the ward or OPD. The college authority said we were not primary contacts and there was no need for testing. Now there are about 20 patients in the gynaecology ward and there is fear we might be carrying the virus and patients might get infected. That is why we want the testing to be done on all who had worked in the gynaecology department when that patient was admitted,” said a doctor.
On Monday, the junior doctors demanded mass screening of healthcare workers who were posted in the Eden Building that houses the gynaecological ward. They also demanded a proper quarantine facility for those who have tested positive.
No immediate response was available from the hospital authorities.
A day after an Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals employee tested positive to Covid-19, 86 people from his Barrackpore neighbourhood, including his family and six colleagues who commuted with him to work, were sent to quarantine.
North 24 Parganas district magistrate Chaitali Chakrabarty and Barrackpore police commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma visited Ward 5, where the 47-year-old lives – on Monday. They instructed the local municipal officials to identify all close contacts of the patient and quarantine them. The ward has been cordoned off and has a huge police presence.
A patient at Ruby General Hospitals was earlier shifted to MR Bangur Hospital after testing positive.
A woman from Narkeldanga had a C-section on April 10. She tested positive to the virus three days later. The hospital had drawn up a list of about 50 healthcare providers — who had come in contact with her — who would be sent to quarantine and have their samples tested.
But the doctors alleged that not all of them were quarantined and that samples of only 30 were tested. “Some of us were asked to continue working either in the ward or OPD. The college authority said we were not primary contacts and there was no need for testing. Now there are about 20 patients in the gynaecology ward and there is fear we might be carrying the virus and patients might get infected. That is why we want the testing to be done on all who had worked in the gynaecology department when that patient was admitted,” said a doctor.
On Monday, the junior doctors demanded mass screening of healthcare workers who were posted in the Eden Building that houses the gynaecological ward. They also demanded a proper quarantine facility for those who have tested positive.
No immediate response was available from the hospital authorities.
A day after an Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals employee tested positive to Covid-19, 86 people from his Barrackpore neighbourhood, including his family and six colleagues who commuted with him to work, were sent to quarantine.
North 24 Parganas district magistrate Chaitali Chakrabarty and Barrackpore police commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma visited Ward 5, where the 47-year-old lives – on Monday. They instructed the local municipal officials to identify all close contacts of the patient and quarantine them. The ward has been cordoned off and has a huge police presence.
A patient at Ruby General Hospitals was earlier shifted to MR Bangur Hospital after testing positive.
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