‘Isolated’ youth sent to jail for misbehaving with nurses

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Varanasi  07.04.2020

: A youth who had returned from the UAE and tested Covid-19 negative, was arrested and sent to jail on Sunday night for allegedly misbehaving with nursing staff and violating quarantine norms in the isolation ward of DDU district hospital in Varanasi.

The nurses took up the matter of the youth, a resident of Machhodari locality, who was kept in the isolation ward while his test report was pending, with divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal, district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma and SSP Prabhakar Chawdhary on Sunday when they were on an inspection tour of the hospital.

The nurses alleged that the youth was not staying in his bed and meeting other patients of the ward and was even insisting on having specific food and fruits.

When the DM tried to convince the youth to follow the instructions of the doctors and nursing staff, he started arguing with the officials. When he did not see reason, the officials asked inspector Cantt to lodge an FIR against him.

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