Fresh cases see doctors, nurse, and hospital patients too

Vadodara: The list of 23 new Covid-19 patients has raised serious concerns. The list includes two doctors, a nurse and two residents of Bhayli area located just on the outskirts of the city who were treated at the same hospital.
The Bhayli residents, however, are admitted at city-based Bhailal Amin General Hospital (BAGH) from where their samples were sent for test. The nurse used to work at the Banker’s Hospital in Manjalpur, Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) officials.
The two doctors who tested positive was a father-son duo. The son is a physician who works at two different hospitals in the city while the father is a general practitioner having clinic in Karelibaug. Sources in the civic body said that with the two fresh cases, three generations of the family have testes positive for Covid-19. The general physician’s father too had tested positive for Covid-19 and died on Saturday, but the death is yet to be announced formally by VMC.
The nurse used to work at a Covid treatment facility in the hospital. Sources in VMC said that she was already in isolation in the hospital itself due to the nature of her work.
“Both the 61-year-old male patient, who is resident of Emerald Flat at Bhayli, and the 86-year-old female patient, who is a resident of Nilamber-4, are hospitalized since quite some time. So, we have not contained the nearby houses as we do in other cases,” said Dr Uday Tilawat, chief district health officer of Vadodara district.
The male patient in fact is hospitalized at BAGH since over a fortnight while the female patient was admitted at BAGH before five days.
“The male patient was brought to our hospital from another hospital with a tracheostomy pipe. He was suffering from neuro deficiency and had other co-morbid conditions. At the time of admission, which is more than 15 days, he did not have any symptoms. But since he started showing symptoms, we got the test done,” said Dr Ravi Hirwani, BAGH’s vice-president.
The female patient too was brought to BAGH from another hospital. “She was brought to us with complaint of internal bleeding before 4-5 days. She too was asymptomatic but later showed some symptoms and has tested positive,” he said.
BAGH is one of the seven designated Covid-19 hospital in the city. With the two Bhayli residents and another resident of Padra testing positive, the total number of positive cases in rural Vadodara has reached 16. The total number of cases in the district including the city now stands at 551.