H’bag pvt hospital sealed after two new moms test +ve

Hazaribag: The Srinivas Hospital, which was attending to maternity cases after

Hazaribag

Medical College and

Hospital

(HMCH) was converted into a

Covid-19

facility, was

sealed

on Friday night after two patients — who had delivered babies on Thursday — tested positive for coronavirus, the deputy commissioner said on Saturday. All the 44 staff at the hospital, including para medics and doctors, have been put in a 14-day quarantine.

Deputy commissioner Bhuvanesh Pratap Singh said, “The existing patients of the hospital are being shifted to HMCH and to a private hospital named Life Care.” He added, “The two women are being treated at HMCH at the moment and they are both stable.”

The DC further said that both the women’s husbands are migrants who returned to the district a few weeks ago. “Our teams have taken their samples and of their other family members. We have also sealed the areas where they live, which falls within the protocol for containment measures,” he added.

The DC said that with rise in Covid-19 figures in Hazaribag — which falls in the green zone now — mostly because of the migrants, the district may get into the red zone soon.