Faridabad, Palwal patients recovering

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, March 25

The condition of the two positive cases in the district is stable and they are on the recovery path.

The first patient, a 53-year-old woman, who had been admitted in a private hospital here on March 11, has almost recovered, doctors attending her said. While she had all the symptoms of Covid at the time of admittance, the patient is reported to be symptom-free at present, though she is still in the hospital.

According to doctors, though the latest sample report that came on March 24 has been negative, the hospital is awaiting the report of the second sample collected yesterday. She will be discharged after the second report, which is also expected to be negative, said a senior doctor, who claimed she had no fever or cough that was recorded at the time of admittance. Her sample report from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases on March 20 had found her positive. She was the first positive case in the district. Strict isolation and personal protection protocols were followed by doctors, nursing staff and other paramedical staff.

The second person found Covid positive on March 24 is a doctor working in the same hospital. He has been admitted in a private nursing home owned by his family in Sector 37 here after his sample report found him positive yesterday. While the Health Department has quarantined all 38 persons, including his wife, who came into his contact recently, the source from where he got the virus is unknown so far. He told department officials that he never came into contact with the woman who was found positive on March 20. “He is fine and recovering well and none of the family members have been found positive,” said Dr Ram Bhagat, Deputy Civil Surgeon and in charge, corona cell, here. The medication regime of both patients is almost the same though the kind of tests being done may vary a little.

In Palwal, the condition of the 68-year-old person who was found to be the first positive case of Palwal district on March 23 is also reported to be stable, according to Health Department officials. While he was shifted to Medical College at Nalhar in Nuh district on the same day due to better medical facilities, the doctors attending him said that the symptoms shown at the time of admittance had started dissipating. His wife and two other persons who came into his contact have been found negative.

First patient’s second report awaited

According to doctors, though the 53-year-old woman’s latest sample report that came on March 24 has been negative, the hospital is awaiting the report of the second sample collected yesterday. She will be discharged after the second report, which is also expected to be negative, said a senior doctor, who claimed she had no fever or cough that was recorded at the time of admittance. She was the first positive case in the district.

3 test negative in Ambala, discharged

The samples of all three suspected Covid patients reported in the district on Tuesday have tested negative. A 25-year-old woman from Ambala Cantonment who returned from Dubai, a 27-year-old male and his associate who had returned from New Zealand were discharged from the hospitals. With this, 21 of the total 22 samples collected have tested negative, the Civil Surgeon said, adding that the situation was completely and the district administration was fully geared up and equipped to deal with any eventuality. tns