68 people at Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital quarantined after death of Covid positive patient

Hospital authorities said a 25-year-old woman with an ectopic pregnancy – where the embroyo is attached outside the uterus – underwent a surgery at the hospital on April 13.

At least 68 people at Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital in Pitampura had to be quarantined after a patient who did not reveal her travel history tested positive for Covid-19, and later died during treatment, officials said.

Of the 68 quarantined, 20 were doctors, 21 nurses, 15 technicians, and other housekeeping and security staff.

Hospital authorities said a 25-year-old woman with an ectopic pregnancy – where the embroyo is attached outside the uterus – underwent a surgery at the hospital on April 13. She did not reveal her travel history and that she had been advised home quarantine by the district authorities.

Two days later, her condition deteriorated and she had to be put on ventilator. She later revealed her travel history and contact with Covid-19 positive travellers. She died on Wednesday night.

Four of the woman’s family members have been put in quarantine.

Meanwhile, a 49-year-old man, under treatment at the Delhi State Cancer Institute, succumbed to the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) late Wednesday. The man was recovering from surgery after a cancerous tumour had been removed from his brain. He is the second patient to have died of Covid-19 at the hospital.

He was admitted to the Institute on March 24, after having been operated elsewhere, as his condition was deteriorating.

After several members of its staff tested positive for Coronavirus, the hospital shut down all of its services and transferred its patients to private hospitals. The patient who died Wednesday was one of those transferred to Dharmashila hospital, where he and one of his family members had tested positive for the Sars-Cov-2.

They were then sent to the Rajiv Gandhi Super-Speciality hospital in Tahirpur, which is a dedicated Covid-19 facility.

So far, of the four Covid-19 patients who were admitted to the Institute, two of them have died.

Twenty-five of staff members in the hospital have tested positive for the infection, making the hospital a hotspot. The first one to test positive was a 35-year-old doctor of preventive oncology.

However, the health department has been unable to pinpoint the source of the infection.

Healthcare workers continue to be at a higher risk of contracting the infection, with another doctor from Lok Nayak Hospital testing positive for Covid-19 Wednesday night. He was a PG student from the department of anaesthesia and was working in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of the hospital.

Lok Nayak is one of the two dedicated Covid-19 hospitals of the Delhi government. At least 50 people from the hospital have been quarantined after two nurses and the doctor tested positive.