Hyderabad: Junior doctor from Osmania Medical College tests Covid positive, admitted in Gandhi

Hyderabad: A PG gynec first year student from Osmania Medical College tested Covid-19 positive and admitted in Gandhi Hospital.

She was attending duties at Petlaburj maternity hospital. Her hostel roommate has been sample tested and report came out negative.

Eighteen of her batchmates are under observation and likely to undergo sample testing. A final-year PG student from the same college is under the scanner after his UG friend, who is also a doctor, visited him in the hostel for two days and now found virus infected.

The junior doctor was made to undergo sample testing after this development and his report is awaited.

Meanwhile, nearly 15 of his PG batchmates in the Osmania hostel are worried as their classmate, who, they meet daily and also go for dining in the hostel mess are also tested for Covid-19 infection.

In case, the final year student is also found to be infected then his hostel and classmates would become primary contacts and they would be kept under home quarantine.

And if any of them have related symptoms they would have to undergo the sample test also.

Dr Naresh, final year PG student in Pulmonology department, who is a friend of the doctor whose sample test was done to check for virus infection said that they are now worried about final year exams slated from June 20.

He said that if they were put on home quarantine and daily health assessment and other formalities that are being done for all cases their exams would go for a toss.

Hence, Kaloji Health University should take an appropriate decision to reschedule exams in the best interest of students

Meanwhile, a person handling duty doctors mess at Osmania General Hospital also tested positive 24 hours ago. He was admitted in Gandhi hospital.