Complaint lodged against absconding Covid patient

Kalaburagi: Officials of the health department in Kalaburagi have lodged a police complaint against a woman, who despite testing positive for novel coronavirus, has been absconding from Wednesday morning, with her daughter and granddaughter in tow. The patient in question was to be admitted to the Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS), the designated Covid hospital in Kalaburagi.
Kalaburagi district health officer (DHO) Dr AM Jabbar said that the woman had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital for her fractured leg. “She had actually undergone the Covid-19 test before going to the private hospital. But her test reports confirming her infected arrived after she had been discharged and had returned home. Health department workers went to her house on Tuesday evening so she could be taken to GIMS. However, the woman said she could not walk, and our workers told her that they would come the next day and take her to the hospital,” Dr Jabbar told TOI.
The patient’s neighbours said that the patient, daughter and granddaughter, who lived in a rented house, had been absconding since the early hours on Wednesday. There are rumours of the trio having been forced to leave the house after the landlord asked them to vacate when the old woman was confirmed to have Covid-19.