38 people including doctors, nurses, patients quarantined in TU Teaching Hospital
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Kathmandu : Thirty-eight people including doctors, nurses and others of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, who came in close contact with a patient infected with Covid-19 have been quarantined.
According to Dr Santa Kumar Das, coordinator of Covid-19 management team of the hospital, contact tracing of all the people who came in close contact of the infected patient have been completed.
“We have sent 38 people including doctors and nurses and family members of the infected patient to quarantine,” Das told the Post. “Five patients, who were in the same ward with the infected patient, have also been sent to isolation.”
Authorities at the hospital had sealed the neuro ward three days ago after the six-year old ENT patient was suspected to have been infected with the virus. The National Public Health Laboratory had confirmed Covid-19 in the patient on Thursday morning.
According to Dr Prem Krishna Khadka, executive director of the hospital, officials deployed from the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division and hospital staffers had done contact tracing of all who had come in contact with the infected patient.
The infected patient was admitted to the neuro ward despite that she was an ENT patient, as the ENT department of the hospital has been converted to Covid-19 treatment center, according to hospital administration.
Earlier on Wednesday, Arogya Foundation and Nidan Hospital in Pulchowk, Lalitpur, were also sealed off after a hospital employee tested positive for Covid-19.
So far, seven Covid-19 cases have been detected in Kathmandu while Bhaktapur has reported two cases.
Source: https://kathmandupost.com/valley/2020/05/14/38-people-including-doctors-nurses-patients-quarantined-in-tu-teaching-hospital
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