No proper guidelines, 4 cured continue to stay at Rims

Gaurav Pandey | Apr 23, 2020, 05:00 IST

Ranchi: Four persons of a family from Hindpiri’s Nala Road area, who were declared cured by the state health department on Tuesday, continued to remain in Rims even on Wednesday due to an absence of proper guidelines from the state government. However, on Tuesday, two cured persons were released from a Hazaribag hospital and sent to home quarantine for 14 days.
Ranchi DC Rai Mahimapat Ray said, “We are awaiting guidelines from the state government over shifting the four recovered patients to their home.”
It is important to note that the state capital has till date recorded two deaths and both of them are from this family.
“We have intimated the district administration after completing all the formalities and it is upon them to take the call,” said a senior doctor at the hospital’s trauma centre.
On being inquired about precautions advised to patients discharged from the Covid-19centre, head of the department of medicine at Rims, Dr J K Mitra, said, “We advise strict home quarantine to such patients and also provide them with immunity improving supplements including zinc, calcium and other mineral-based medicines.”
Meanwhile, a team of five doctors and five nurses, who had gone into quarantine for 14 days after attending to the first batch of Covid-19 patients at Rims, resumed duty on Wednesday. The healthcare workers were received by Rims’ governing council member and Kanke MLA Samri Lal as they walked out of the hotel where they were housed during the 14-day period.
Upon arrival at the hospital’s campus, Rims director Dr D K Singh and other senior faculties and staff welcomed the junior doctors and nurses by showering flowers upon them.
Speaking to TOI, Singh said, “I am thankful to all the frontline workers, including the team of junior doctors and nursing staff, who have been tirelessly working and attending to Covid-19 patients. It is because of the their efforts that five positive patients recovered in Ranchi.”
He added, “I have asked all our frontline workers to take care of themselves first because if they fall prey to the viral infection we will not be able to fight the virus.”
On being inquired, the team of health workers who returned from quarantine, said that they experienced sleeplessness initially due to the change in routine, but the quarantine also provided them with ample time for things they miss out on. “We prepared for our examinations, binged watched webseries, got connected with friends and family over phone, which is a luxury during hospital duty,” said one of the doctors.