Ranchi: Hours after TOI highlighted error in
data on Covid-19 patients in Pakur district, the state unit of the National Health Mission (NHM) corrected the numbers in its bulletin released on Monday night. As per the state government data, a total of 21 people were infected by virus in the whole of November while 14 recovered and 58 were active cases.
However, the bulletin released by NHM on Monday night showed 56 recoveries, taking the number of active cases in district to three. When TOI spoke with health department officials in Pakur and NHM on Monday morning, they blamed it on the national health portal of Covid-19 and said the inflated numbers were because of migrated persons testing positive elsewhere in country.
State health secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni on Tuesday said he has spoken to the authorities in Pakur and the error in data was because of the reports being submitted directly to national portal. “I have been informed that the increase in active cases in Pakur is because of outsider patients and one more has been reported from Navi Mumbai on Monday. I have asked them to verify the data before submitting it to state NHM.” On being asked the number of patients currently admitted in Pakur said: “There are three patients currently being treated at our care centres in Pakur.”