So many lapses here. Mohammed Hussain Siddiqui, a religious leader from Kalburgi, Karnataka - India's first victim to #WuhanVirus. Piecing the story from different news reports.
1. 76 yr old Siddiqui returned from Mecca on Feb 29th, landed at Bengaluru airport and proceeded to Kalburgi, 500 km away. This man had a history of hypertension and asthma.
2. Developed symptoms of cough and cold on Mar 6th. A private doctor visited his home and treated him. Admitted at the Sunrise Hospital, Kalburgi following complaints of cough and other symptoms.
3. His sample was collected on Mar 9th by the Viral Research Diagnostic laboratory, GIMS, Kalaburgi, to rule out Covid-19 and the sample was dispatched to VRDL, BMC&RI, Bengaluru.
4. Without waiting for the test results, his attendees insisted and the patient was discharged against medical advice (DAMA) and the attendees took him to Hyderabad for further treatment.
5. Earlier, the District Health Officer had met the attendees to convince them to admit the patient to the Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences in the isolation ward set up there.But the attendees refused to listen to him and transferred the patient to Hyd without his knowledge
5. Siddiqui had visited the Apollo Hospital and the Citi Neuro Centre at Jubilee Hills and the Care Hospital in Banjara Hills. The patient was referred to the Gandhi Hospital but the family was not ready to go there.
6. Care Hospital says he had acute respiratory distress syndrome, high temp, and cough and had left the hospital on 9 Mar against medical advice.
7. Care Hospital said the patient was “immediately shifted to an isolation room, equipped with negative air pressure and HEPA air filters to prevent any further transmission. The docs etc who attended to the patient had observed complete PPE (personal protective eqpt) protocol.”
8. The hospital had advised that the patient be admitted to the critical care isolation unit.
Apparently, the hospital seemed to have told if the patient was found to have been infected by coronavirus, the doctors told the family that he must be shifted to the Gandhi Hospital.
Apparently, the hospital seemed to have told if the patient was found to have been infected by coronavirus, the doctors told the family that he must be shifted to the Gandhi Hospital.
9. However, his family had refused and decided to take him back to his native place on 10 March. The patient died en route to his native place in Kalburgi.
10. The patients relatives must be prosecuted
- they shifted the man without the knowledge of govt health officials
- did hospital shopping and treatment shopping
- refused to go into isolation at the specified govt hospitals
- were not bothered about exposing others to the risk
- they shifted the man without the knowledge of govt health officials
- did hospital shopping and treatment shopping
- refused to go into isolation at the specified govt hospitals
- were not bothered about exposing others to the risk
