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Karnataka doctor breaks rules, resulting in 3 more doctors in quarantine

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Sunitha Rao R    19 March 2020

Four doctors from Bengaluru are in home isolation after one of the doctor came in contact with a coronavirus patient. He held a meeting with the other three doctors the next day – this case shows the gaps in taking necessary precautions. One of the doctor is the director of state-run Institute of Nephro Urology (INU).

This happened days after a 32 year old techie person who had returned to Bengaluru from the US via London and was tested positive with COVID-19. He did not followed the home isolation rule and played tennis on three different courts on three days and also watched a movie in a theatre with his family.

Also, one of the doctors who is in home isolation works at Victoria Hospital, Bengaluru, whose campus lines INU. On 15th March, he accompanied his 20-year-old relative, who had recently returned from the UK, to the coronavirus testing centreinside the campus. On 16th March, he held a meeting with three doctors from INU, which also included the institute’s director, Dr R Keshavamurthy. Later on that day, the test reports discovered that the 20-year-old, a woman, tested positive for coronavirus.

Victoria Hospital sources said that before going for the test on 15th March, the woman had told her doctor relative on the phone that she had few symptoms and the doctor advised her to meet him.

The directorate of the state medical education has asked all four doctors to self-isolate themselves for 14 days. Doctor’spresence on the campus can cause further problems for INU patients, those are already in immunocompromised state.

Dr Keshavamurthy, while speaking to the TOI during his home isolation said that the woman who tested positive had visited the Victoria premises on 15th March to meet a faculty member and attended a meeting on Monday.

This case of negligence has upset officials of the health and family welfare department. They feel that contact tracing of positive cases has shown a pattern of fliers not obeying the home isolation rule in Bengaluru. People returning from any coronavirus-affected countries are required to be at home for 14 days as soon as they arrive in the country.

A senior health official has said that this kind of was behavior is shocking and shows complete disrespect of precautions that are designed specifically to prevent and control transmission of coronavirus. He further said that till now, only, a 50-year-old person who returned from the US via London on 8th March have followed the government’s rule on home isolation. He didn’t step out of the house, and also his wife and domestic help are maintaining distance. He have not showed any symptoms yet.

Karnataka has recorded the first COVID-19 death in the country with a 76-year-old man from Kalburgi who had returned from Saudi Arabia. The state has reported confirmed 14 coronavirus cases.

Source: ET Healthworld

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