Doctor booked, 500 contacts being traced

Doctor booked, 500 contacts being traced

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Kolhapur  04.06.2020

The Gadhinglaj police have registered various offences against a doctor for operating his two clinics and attending to patients for three days even after he had shown Covid-19 symptoms.

The doctor’s swab test returned positive on Wednesday, sending the administration on a tracing exercise of 500 people who had come in contact with him.

The doctor, who runs clinics in Gadhinglaj and Kadgaon, showed Covid-19 symptoms on June 21 and he got himself tested at a private laboratory on June 28.

However, instead of quarantining himself, he continued to attend to patients on June 29 and 30 in both clinics.

The administration is now tracing those who came in contact with the doctor from June 21 as well as the secondary contacts.

So far, they have identified more than 500 people from 28 neighbouring villages during the exercise.

Meanwhile, police have taken to social media and appealed to people to contact them in case they have visited the doctor in the last few days.

The Gadhinglaj police have registered offences against the doctor under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and even the Disaster Management Act.