Lock removed after nurse threatened GHMC locks up Covid +ve nurse to break open the door

WHEN WE tried to inform the officials, no one came forward to help us. I had decided to break the lock tomorrow if the authorities did not unlock our house.

NURSE

The government showered flower petals on medical personnel to honour them for their services in combating the Coronavirus pandemic, but it has ignored them when they are affected by the pandemic.

The family of a nurse who tested Covid positive was forced to spend a fortnight in a locked house, unable to even dispose off their garbage during the containment period. After neighbours intervened, GHMC officials unlocked the house on Thursday.

The nurse was working in the Government Nizamia General Hospital (Unani) at Charminar, and tested Covid positive a fortnight ago and went into self-isolation at her home at Golnaka in Amberpet, on the advice of the doctors. But GHMC authorities decided to lock her house from outside!

The nurse said that after doctors told her that she was asymptomatic, she went into home isolation on their advice. The civic authorities, however, literally locked her down in her own house.

Relatives and neighbours provided essential items for us, the nurse said, but the behaviour of the authorities was inexpressible. She said that for the last 15 days, there has been no deterioration in her health and she and all members of her family are healthy.

She said not one of the concerned authorities contacted them personally. They did not even arrange disposal of our garbage, she said. How can we ask our relatives or neighbours to dispose of our garbage, she queried.

“When we tried to inform the officials, no one came forward to help us. I had decided to break the lock tomorrow if the authorities did not unlock our house. However, on the intervention of one of our neighbours, GHMC authorities unlocked the house in the evening,” she said.

Sources said that no one from the hospital, where she worked and attended to suspect and asymptomatic patients, came forward to help her during those hard days.