LUCKNOW: In gross negligence, the district health department recently issued
Covid-19 negative reports of three persons of a family — two of whom are in the US while one died years ago. The anomaly was detected when these reports were uploaded on the district Covid portal.
Ashray Jaiswal (40), a bank executive, tested
Covid positive on October 6. Two days later, a contact tracing team came to his rented home in Rajajipuram to collect the samples of his wife and two children for tests. The team gave Ashray a link of the portal where he could login to see the test results. When Ashray opened the portal the next day, he was shocked to see reports of five other persons along with his family members with the same residential address.
“The reports of my wife and children sttaed that they were tested through the RT-PCR method. While my son tested positive, wife and daughter came negative. However, of five other names, three were of my landlord’s family — two of the couple who own the house and are currently in the US while third report was of the landlord’s father who passed away a few years ago. The remaining two persons were not known to me,” he told TOI.
“I don’t know whether this was an error or the team noted the names of the landlord’s family from the nameplate outside the house without actually collecting samples. But the incident raised doubt over the veracity of my family’s reports. I reported the matter immediately on the Covid helpline. Thereafter, a contact team personnel arrived and apologised while promising to get my family’s tests done again. But, when nothing happened, I called up the helpline on Monday and got assurance that the second tests will be conducted soon. However, the entire episode has left us in a deep mental trauma” Ashray added.
CMO Dr Sanjay Bhatnagar said an employee was suspended and showcause was served to another on Tuesday after a probe found them guilty of the anomaly.