GMC +ve case link traced in 7 dists, 89 tagged ‘high-risk’

Bhopal: Health department has alerted collectors in Dewas, Rajgarh, Hoshangabad, Raisen, Vidhsha, Sehore along with the state capital to screen for patients, new-borns and their relatives for Covid-19.

A list of 25 women who were admitted in Bhopal’s Sultania hospital, has been sent to the respective collectors and health officers. These women come in contact with Gandhi Medical College (GMC) doctor in the maternity care hospital, said Sultania hospital superintendent, Dr I D Chaurasia, on Monday.

The doctor is assumed to have been present in the operation theatre where these women underwent surgery. The doctor was on duty until last Friday, when she was diagnosed with Covid-19. The patient and their relatives who came to Bhopal hospital are to be screened.

Contact tracing of those who came in close contact with Covid-19 positive doctor includes, two patients from Dewas, one from Hoshangabad and Sehore and three each from Rajgarh and Raisen. The rest of the patients who were have a contact history are from Bhopal.

Meanwhile, 25 nurses along with seven class-III staff of Sultania hospital were categorised as high-risk on Monday. Earlier, 31 doctors including two senior residents were sent into quarantine. In all about more than 89 people have been tagged as high risk, after GMC junior doctor tested positive.