60-yr-old woman in pvt hospital among 13 from Mominpura to test +ve

Nagpur: A 60-year-old woman is among 13 persons from Mominpura who tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, taking the district’s tally to 296 and cases from Mominpura to 145. The woman allegedly got admitted to a private hospital situated at Kamal Chowk, Kamptee Road, despite alerted to go in for institutional quarantine two days ago. Now, the doctors and staff from this private hospital will have to be quarantined.
Now, Mominpura accounts for 48.98% of the total cases of the district. This locality, city’s second Covid-19 hotspot, is now well ahead of the first hotspot — Satranjipura, whose tally is 116.
A pregnant lady from Kala Jhanda area in Mominpura got admitted for delivery at IGGMCH on May 5. She tested positive the next day. Zonal medical officer of NMC Mahal-Gandhibagh Zone Dr Khwaja Moinuddin told TOI, “We quarantined 12 family members of the woman, of whom eight tested positive.”
The woman was a tenant in a building, so NMC alerted other tenants to enter quarantine on May 6. NMC also quarantined 22 other people from the building and neighbourhood. Then, NMC came to know that a 60-year-old woman among the tenants had got admitted at the private hospital at Kamal Chowk after she developed a fever on May 8. “Our team went to the hospital and brought her to institutional quarantine. Her samples tested positive on Sunday,” Moinuddin said.
He added, “The private hospital is also at fault. NMC has time and again alerted private hospitals to inform about COPD and SARI patients immediately.”
NMC has clearly said private hospitals should avoid admission of patients from containment zones and send them to government hospitals authorized for Covid-19 testing and treatment. “The hospital administration had in fact earlier denied admission to any person from Mominpura,” he said.
A team of NMC from Mahal-Gandhibagh zone and Ashi Nagar zone reached the private hospital to identify all those exposed to the woman late on Sunday night. The hospital had continued functioning over two days too, even after the woman was brought to institutional quarantine.
NMC, late on Sunday night, quarantined at the same hospital 11 doctors and staff, and also four patients admitted there. This makes it the fifth private hospital where doctors and staff are quarantined after being exposed to patients who tested positive later.
Meanwhile, municipal commissioner Tukaram Mundhe notified Jawahar Nagar in South Nagpur as containment zone. This is the 20th containment zone, of which 15 are still being enforce.
The containment zone has been notified with boundaries at Manewada cement road, road connecting Inner Ring Road with Sharda Chowk, road connecting Sharda Chowk with Manewada cement road, Peer Baba Durgah etc.
Also, a 51-year-old SARI patient admitted to GMCH tested positive a day ago. NMC has quarantined 10 family members and will trace more people from Monday onwards.
NMC’s preliminary investigation revealed the person was taking care of accounts of a travel agency at Kalamna. His wife runs a beauty parlour at home.
Though no positive patient has been reported from Kalamna, this area is famous for wholesale vegetable, fruit, foodgrains market, and movement of lot of heavy vehicles from other districts of Vidarbha and states.
The person is so far the fourth corona positive whose source of infection is yet to be ascertained. The others were the cancer patient of Sangam Nagar in North Nagpur, youth from Pandhrabodi slum in West Nagpur, and homeopathy practitioner from Bada Tajbagh in South Nagpur.
On Sunday, 12 more positive persons — seven from IGGMCH and five from GMCH — were discharged after recovering from Covid-19. Nine are from Satranjipura, two from Mominpura and one from Shanti Nagar. This takes total number of recoveries in the district to 92.