AIIMS doctor couple test +ve
No of city doctors infected rises to 8 ◗ Rigorous contact tracing is on after the resident doctor said he attended a farewell ceremony at work. Neither he, nor his wife have any travel history.
New Delhi: A doctor couple from the prestigious AIIMS in Delhi tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday.
Earlier on Thursday, a resident doctor of AIIMS from the physiology department, was admitted for further evaluation and multiple testing. Later in the day, his 9-month pregnant wife, also a doctor posted at AIIMS Emergency, was found to be infected with the virus. She has been isolated and her delivery will take place at AIIMS.
A resident doctor of All India Institute of Medical Sciences here has tested positive for coronavirus, sources said. His wife, also a doctor at AIIMS who is 9 months pregnant, also tested positive. Sources said neither of them have any travel history.
Rigorous contact tracing is on after the resident doctor said he attended a farewell ceremony at work. With this, eight doctors in Delhi have contracted the highly contagious virus.
The doctor, who belongs to the physiology department, has been admitted to the new private ward for further evaluation and multiple testing. His family will also be screened, sources said.
On Wednesday, three doctors in Delhi had tested positive — two of them were from the Safdarjung hospital, which is located just opposite AIIMS. The other doctor was from the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Hospital.
One of the Safdarjung doctors, a third-year postgraduate student of the biochemistry department, had just returned from Dubai. The other one contracted the infection from a patient, again highlighting the deplorable lack of adequate protective gear for doctors even at the top hospitals of the national capital.
Few days ago, two mohalla clinic doctors in Delhi had tested positive. Wife and teenage daughter of one of the doctors were also infected.
A doctor at the Delhi State Cancer Institute has also tested positive for coronavirus. She had recently visited some relatives who returned from the UK.
AIIMS has turned its sprawling trauma centre, just a few kilometres from the hospital located in south Delhi, into a dedicated unit to treat Covid19 patients.
The doctors said given the lockdown, the number of trauma patients has reduced significantly.