Complaint Against AIIMS Bhubaneswar Filed At NHRC

Bhubaneswar: Social activist Akhand has written a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) alleging that the quarantine protocol was breached by hiding the travel history of a patient at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He later tested positive for COVID-19.

However, earlier, Director, AIIMS Bhubaneswar Dr Gitanjali Padmanabhan had clarified that there was no such violation. “The patient went straight to his home from the airport and was brought to hospital the next day. Since then he is in isolation,” she had said.

According to the AIIMS Director, the patient had arrived at Bhubaneswar on March 18 and went straight to his home from the airport. The next day, his father brought him to the hospital to be tested and he was admitted to the isolation room.

The AIIMS Director clarified that the room in which the patient was kept was a doctor’s chamber in the Ayush ward and was identified as an isolation room.

The doctor and staff who treated the boy were all wearing N-95 masks and they had taken all safety precautions, she added.