Sishu Bhawan OPD shut after patient tests positive
Cuttack: After Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre and SCB Medical College and Hospital, the out patient department (OPD) of Sishu Bhawan or Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Post Graduate Institute of Paediatrics was shut on Monday till further notice after a patient tested positive.
“As one patient was found to be Covid positive, the hospital will be shut considering the safety of the people and the staff till further orders,” said Sishu Bhawan superintendent Dr Saroj Satpathy.
He said emergency services will continue in the hospital and critical cases will be admitted. “All patients have been asked to be cautious and only one attendant will be allowed per patient,” he added. The hospital is being sanitised and the sanitisation exercise will continue for at least three days, hospital authorities said.
So far, 33 patients have tested positive for the virus at SCB Medical College and Hospital. On Monday, 11 new cases were reported from the hospital that includes four patients from the isolation ward and seven hospital staff.
Massive sanitation exercise was carried out in various departments of the SCB on Monday by Cuttack Municipal Corporation workers along with fire-fighting official after detection of several Covid-19 positive cases.
After detection of 38 Covid-19 positive cases in AHRCC on Saturday, all the affected persons were shifted to Covid-19 hospitals from AHRCC. Thereafter, no more case have been detected from the centre. Altogether 107 Covid-19 cases have been detected from AHRCC till Saturday.
The first case at the cancer hospital was detected on June 24 when a patient from Ganjam admitted to the hospital on June 19, tested positive. After that two nurses, who had come in contact with him, were also found to be positive. On July 2, 55 people, including 18 cancer patients, 36 attendants and a nurse tested positive.
After the sanitisation drive, all critical cancer patients found to be negative have been shifted to a special isolation ward. “Doctors and paramedics have been engaged to monitor their health condition,” said CMC commissioner Ananya Das
Seventeen more, particularly attendants of cancer patients, who were found to be negative have been shifted to institutional quarantine of Cuttack Municipal Corporation. They will be kept under observation and will stay in quarantine for 14 days, added Das.