MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently filed a complaint against a Dahisar resident, who allegedly travelled on a train from Vadodara to Mumbai on March 24 despite testing positive for Covid.
She was instructed to undergo 14-day home
quarantine after getting discharged from SSG Hospital in Vadodara the previous day. The 53-year-old, Taruna Nayak, who is currently at Dahisar Checknaka Covid Centre will get discharged in a day or two. Meanwhile, the authorities are concerned about all those who came in contact with Nayak while travelling on the train from Vadodara.
Nayak visited her relatives in Vadodara last month to attend a family ritual when she contracted the Covid infection. “The hospital she was admitted to erred in their responsibility and got her discharged and asked her to undergo 14-day quarantine,” said a BMC official.
Nayak then approached her relative but they got her a train ticket to travel back to Mumbai as they did not have the space to accommodate her. “Nayak was helpless and she boarded the train on March 23 and reached Mumbai the next day. A resident and local corporator informed about Nayak’s arrival and tipped off the BMC that they suspect she tested positive. A team went to her Kandarpada home and found out that she had been tested positive. We got hold of the discharge card of SSG Hospital in Vadodara where Nayak was admitted and the RT-PCR test report confirmed she was positive,” said BMC sanitary inspector, Pravin Lad in the first information report (FIR).
MHB Colony senior inspector PG Yele said Nayak has been booked. “The woman is currently undergoing treatment at Dahisar’s Covid Centre. Chargesheet will be filed in the court and it will decide the further course of action,” said Yele.