Scare at Rims labour room: Discharged woman, 2 Surat migrants among 4 new cases

Ranchi: Healthcare workers at the labour room at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) labour room have again been exposed to the risk of infection as a 25-year-old pregnant from Mandar block in Ranchi district tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, a day after she was discharged from the hospital after giving birth to a child on May 11.
The woman was among four to test positive for the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, as six patients — five from Ranchi and one from Garhwa —were discharged from hospital. The other new patients include a resident of Hindpiri (a containment zone) in Ranchi and two migrant workers who returned to Koderma from Surat on a Shramik special train recently, taking the total number of cases to 177. Of the, 87 are active cases while two have died and 88 have recovered.
Talking to TOI, state health secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni said: “We detected four positive cases on Wednesday in state. Among four two are migrant workers who had returned from Surat on May 6. The remaining two are from Ranchi.”
Rims director Dr D K Singh said, “The pregnant woman had come to the hospital on Monday and she was admitted to the labour room after screening and ascertaining her travel history. We have started tracing of all those who came in contact with her and they are being shifted to quarantine.”
On being asked about a possibility of the patient getting infected at Rims, Singh said: “We have changed the protocol at the gynaecology department after two pregnant women tested positive recently. We tested all the staff at the labour room and none of them had tested positive.”
The Hindpiri woman who tested positive was also housed at Rims isolation centre along with her six-year-old daughter who had tested positive on April 25.
In Koderma, two migrants who had returned home from Surat via Dhanbad in a Shramik special train tested positive, taking the total number of returning migrants testing positive to 50.
Koderma DC Ramesh Gholap said: “The two, aged 19 and 20, were under institutional quarantine with 11 others after they arrived from Dhanbad station on a bus. They are residents of Domchanch block. We are not allowing any migrant returning from red zones to visit their homes and are keeping them at institutional quarantine until they test negative. The two did not come in contact with anyone in the area since their arrival. We are shifting them to hospital.”