Nursing home sealed, Jhansi docs quarantined

JHANSI: A prominent nursing home in the city was sealed by the health department authorities after news of a suspected coronavirus case spread on Friday. The doctor couple running the hospital have also been quarantined as the lady doctor had recently returned from the US.
Officials said the nursing home is being run by a doctor couple. While the husband is a heart specialist, the wife is a gynaecologist.
As per chief medical officer of Jhansi Dr GK Nigam, who initiated the action, the gynaecologist had a few days ago returned from the US, but without going into 14-day self-quarantine, she started taking up cases.She even performed an operation a couple of days ago and the patient had developed coronalike symptoms.
As the news was received by authorities, a team from health department went to the nursing home. They vacated rest of the admitted patients, barring the one who was operated along with both the doctors.
“We have sealed the entire premises and put both the doctors and the patient under quarantine. We have also asked the nursing staff to go under self-quarantine. We have also sent the blood samples of all the three for investigation,” the CMO said.
Meanwhile, five suspected patients were also admitted in the isolation ward of the district hospital and their samples have also been sent for investigation.