Two hospital workers positive, staff worried

Safety steps exposed

It has exposed the absence of safety measures like personal protection kits and other safety precautions

This has stressed the need to extend insurance for the private healthcare staff and frontline professionals who are at the maximum risk

Financial assistance by way of insurance should be extended to all ranks even in the private sector

Tribune News Service

Solan, April 11

A receptionist and a lab technician of Brooklyn Hospital at Jharmajri in Barotiwala industrial area, who tested positive for Covid last evening, has left the medical community worried. With this, the number of positive cases has reached nine in Nalagarh subdivision.

Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Health, RD Dhiman, confirmed that 27-year-old Vinay Kumar and 20-year-old Manoj Kumar were quarantined at Brooklyn Hospital. Three other positive patients of Nalagarh, admitted to the IGMC-Shimla, have been cured.

Five Delhi residents, who were staying at the guesthouse of a helmet company at Jharmajri in Barotiwala, visited the hospital for treatment. All five were Covid positive. While a woman among them had died at the PGI, four others had shifted to a Gurgaon hospital on April 3. The two hospital staffers had contracted the infection from these Delhi residents, informed health officials.

Eight primary contacts, including the hospital staff, and 18 secondary contacts of these Delhi residents had been quarantined in the hospital since April 3.

It has exposed the absence of safety measures like personal protection kits and other safety precautions. This has stressed the need to extend insurance for the private health care staff and frontline professionals who were at the maximum risk.

Doctors said financial assistance by way of insurance should be extended to all ranks even in the private sector as they were risking their lives.

As many as 20 families of Kotiyan and Kalu Jhinda villages, who were receiving milk from a Covid positive patient Noor Mohammad and two others from Khuda Baksha village in Pinjore, were quarantined at home today in the presence of health staff, informed SP, Baddi, Rohit Malpani.