As many as 25 medical staff, including three doctors, are in home quarantine after two patients were detected with Covid-19 positive.
On Wednesday while 24 positive cases were detected in the district, two of them were undergoing treatment, reports said.
Both are women patients and were under treatment in different wards
One 24-year-old woman Mumbai returnee while was admitted in the gynaecology ward, another, 55 -year- old woman, a resident of Remuna, was admitted in the orthopaedic ward following fracture.
District Project Manager (DPM) Anil Mohanty said, “Both the women corona affected were in isolated beds in their wards and have been sent to the Covid hospitals. Their close contact relatives while are sent to temporary medical centre (TMC), the doctors, nurses, paramedics and other staff are on home quarantine.”
The 24-year-old woman was admitted in the hospital from TMC after vomiting compliant during her pregnancy. Since she was a Mumbai returnee and initially lodged in the TMC, her sample was sent for test. During her stay in the gynaecology ward she was in an isolated bed in the ward. After detection of Covid virus she was sent to Covid hospital in the district and since her husband, also a Mumbai returnee, was in close contact with her, he was sent to TMC.
In another case, the 55- year- old woman came to hospital with fracture along with her two sons.
As she was required surgery, swab test was mandatory before the invasive procedure.
She was in isolated bed in the Orthopaedic ward and when the report came positive she was referred to KIMS Covid Hospital, Bhubaneswar for treatment and further surgery. Her two sons were sent to the TMC, said DPM Mohanty.