Covid patient escapes from quarantine facility to meet his new born baby in Uttarakhand

  • | Monday | 10th August, 2020

The patient, identified as Mohammad Arif of Haridwar in Uttrakhand, allegedly escaped from Sood Dharamshala in Sector 22, which houses a Covid centre and post-discharge quarantine facility.

A covid-19 patient admitted in a quarantine facility in Chandigarh ram away from the facility to Uttarakhand to meet his new born baby.

The patient, identified as Mohammad Arif of Haridwar in Uttrakhand, allegedly escaped from Sood Dharamshala in Sector 22, which houses a Covid centre and post-discharge quarantine facility.

Sood Dharamshala nodal officer Shreya told the police that Arif, who had come to Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research for his son’s treatment, was tested positive for Covid-19 and referred here on July 29. He was supposed to be shifted from Sood Dharamshala to the Covid centre set up at Panjab University on Saturday morning, but he was nowhere to be found.

Arif’s roommate said when he didn’t see him there at night, he assumed that he (Arif) had been shifted to the PU Covid centre.

Officials said Arif’s wife had recently delivered a baby who was sick, so Arif escaped the quarantine facility and travelled all the way to Uttarakhand to see his child at the Roorkee civil hospital. Arif has now been quarantined there as per the protocol.


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