Chaos at Amritsar hospital as patients insist to go home

AMRITSAR: Utter chaos prevailed at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital (GNDH) here on Saturday after the Covid-19 patients admitted there insisted on going home.

Over 25 coronavirus disease patients, who were admitted in the cardiothoracic unit of GNDH, refused to have their meals and insisted the hospital authorities to discharge them from the hospital. The patients claimed that they were healthy with no Covid-19 symptoms, and wanted to go home despite being infected.

Later, medical superintendent Dr Raman Sharma and GMC principal Dr Sujata Sharma arrived at the hospital’s isolation ward and pacified the patients.

The hospital authorities said that though the asymptomatic patients were healthy, they could act as carriers of the virus and infect many others.