Untraceable Covid patients a new challenge for Haryana
Manvir.Saini@timesgroup.com
Chandigarh 09.07.2020
: Haryana’s health department faces a new challenge in battling Covid-19 — of people who give the wrong address or conceal their identity when their sample is being taken and later test positive for the virus.
As a result, hundreds of patients have been untraceable. This is largely happening in NCR districts and has sent the health department and district administrations in a tizzy. There is a mismatch of 1600 such patents in Faridabad district alone and Gurgaon too has a good number of such patients, confirmed an official. Also, patients from other districts and residents of Haryana travelling by air too have been untraceable. “In some cases, persons had given wrong addresses and wrong contact details. Civil surgeons had shared this information with local administration as well as police for further action,’’ said director general of health services Dr S B Kamboj.
He said they had now taken several measures to prevent such lapses. “Laboratories have been directed to ensure correct contact details and crosscheck everything by making a verification call and taking Aadhaar details of the person,’’ said Kamboj.
Faridabad DC Yash Pal Yadav too admitted to the threat caused by people who were giving wrong details “During the probe, we had found that besides misrepresentation of facts, there had been incidents where reports were uploaded late and the person had moved moved to another place. We have held meetings with laboratories. Some labs have been served showcause notices,” said Faridabad DC.
Laboratories have been directed to ensure they take correct contact details and crosscheck everything by making a verification call and asking for Aadhaar details
DR S B KAMBOJ Director general of health services
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