Ophthalmologist’s Delhi visit causes anxiety

He conducted surgery after the event

05/04/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,ADILABAD

The entire medical fraternity in Adilabad district of Telangana is waiting anxiously for the COVID-19 test report of an ophthalmologist at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Adilabad.

If the test report turns out to be positive for the deadly viral infection, then scores of people who have come into contact with him will become COVID-19 suspects entailing a huge exercise in isolation and performing tests, according to sources at RIMS hospital.

The medical fraternity and the district administration are aghast that the eye specialist in question hid the fact that he had visited the Tablighi Jamaat markaz (centre) at Nizamuddin in New Delhi between March 8 and 12. He, in fact, attended duties between March 12 and April 1 before he was sent into quarantine at the RIMS wards.

The eye specialist in question is a senior national-level functionary of the Tablighi Jamaat based in Adilabad town. He is reported to have attended the preparatory meeting of the Jamaat between the dates in question having flown in and out of the national capital.