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Six of their household
members additionally examined constructive. (Specific Photograph by Amit Mehra)
Well being officers are on their toes after 5 individuals who had gone for dialysis at Moolchand Hospital, and 6 of their members of the family, examined constructive for COVID-19. Police have traced round 100 individuals who visited the hospital within the final week of March, whereas 61 contacts of the 11 who examined constructive have been informed to go for residence quarantine.
One of many sufferers is a resident of Safdarjung Enclave who, together with 4 members of the family, has examined constructive for the virus. In one other case, a 13-year-old in Sector 7 of R Ok Puram and his mother and father examined constructive. Whereas the realm the place the Safdarjung household lives, in B4, has been declared a containment zone, officers visited the R Ok Puram sector and can seal it quickly.
Dialysis providers on the hospital have, in the meantime, been stopped since April 8.
The hospital has quarantined over 20 of its workers members, together with nephrologists and technicians who had been on obligation through the interval.
In response to sources, the primary confirmed case was reported from the hospital on April 4.
A spokesperson from Moolchand Hospital stated: “Workers accomplished their quarantine interval on Saturday, however we are going to watch for the ultimate orders from the district administration on beginning providers once more. We have now been following correct protocol whereas coping with all sufferers visiting the hospital. However in lots of instances, the sufferers are asymptomatic and it isn’t potential to determine if they’re growing any signs for COVID-19.”
DCP (Southeast) R P Meena stated police had traced 100 individuals who visited the hospital within the final week of March, and requested them to make sure residence quarantine.
Amongst those that have examined constructive is a nurse from Moolchand, with authorities saying her contacts are additionally being traced. “The primary incident got here to gentle when a resident of Nizamuddin Basti, who visited the hospital for dialysis, examined constructive. The nurse, who stayed at a hostel contained in the hospital, examined constructive on April 4,” stated an officer. The Nizamuddin space is already a containment zone.
Aside from the Safdarjung, R Ok Puram and Nizamuddin sufferers, officers have traced a case to Lajpat Nagar-I. It was on April Eight that the RWA knowledgeable police {that a} 45-year-old bedridden kidney affected person of their space had examined constructive.
“Officers discovered he too used to get dialysis on the hospital often. He visited the hospital on March 31, April 2 and 4, however the division was closed afterwards. He was shifted to a hospital as soon as he examined constructive, and died throughout therapy,” an officer stated.
Eight individuals who got here in touch with him have been informed to go for residence quarantine. No sealing orders have been declared within the space to date.
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