Ahmedabad: Patient couple flouts isolation, goes to Pune

AHMEDABAD: A couple, residents of the Maninagar area, was diagnosed as Covid-19 positive and instructed to remain home quarantined but they left for their home town Pune. After which a complaint was filed against them.
Dr Tejas Shah, 41, medical supervisor, south zone, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, stated in an FIR with Maninagar police that Neelam Gaekwad, 30, and her husband Manish Gaekwad, 30, residents of Shridhar Apartment in Maninagar, were asked to remain home quarantined for 14 days since July 27.
“On July 27, Neelam and her husband were tested for coronavirus in a mobile medical van, Dhanvantari Rath. As they were diagnosed as Covid-19 positive, they were asked to remain isolated and home quarantined for 14 days,” states Shah in the FIR.
Shah said that a team of health department went to their home, gave medicines and put a label that the house has Covid-19 positive patients.
On July 31, a medical team visited Gaekwads’ house and found that it was locked.
Shah told an officer of urban health centre in Maninagar Dr Neha Parikh to inquire about the couple. An entomologist of AMC Parth Panchal called up Neelam and asked on where they had left the place.
Neelam told Panchal that she had gone to Swargate area in their home town Pune where they have their house. She also informed that she and her husband were treated for Covid-19 at a hospital in Pune.
Shah states in the FIR that the couple had violated rules of home quarantine as they went to their home town. “They intentionally spread the viral disease and also disobeyed a public servant order asking them to stay in their home only,” states the FIR.
Inspector S M Patel of Maninagar police said that he was unaware on how the couple went to Pune and what mode of travel they used.