No Covid reports, just phone calls from dept

Manav Mander

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, July 24

People who are getting themselves tested for Covid-19 are not being given any hard copy of the reports by the Health Department. Those who test positive are either sent a message or a call is made on their mobilephones. However, there is no intimation to those who test negative.

A resident of Omaxe Residency said after a few residents of the nearby flats tested positive, a Health Department team took samples of all neigbours on the floor. They noted the contact numbers of the residents.

“A week passed by but we got no intimation from the department. When I contacted the security wing of the apartment block, they told me that all persons had tested negative. When I asked them to send me the reports, they said they were conveyed only verbally about it by the department,” he said.

Another patient from Tajpur Road said she got a call from the department that her report was positive. When a team came to her house to take her for screening, she asked them to show her the report but they did not have it.

Civil Surgeon Dr Rajesh Bagga said the status of the report was conveyed to the people on their mobilephones as it was not possible to deliver reports personally.