COVID Scare: Rayagada CDMO & Office Staff Sent To Home Quarantine

Rayagada: The Chief District Medical Officer of Rayagada and all staff members of his office were sent to home quarantine on Wednesday after a vaccine inspector posted there tested positive for COVID-19.

Following the incident, the district administration sealed the CDMO office and ordered for sanitization of the entire office premises.

This comes on the day when Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is attending a technical workshop on furthering safety measures for health workers engaged in COVID-19 management, through video conferencing. All CDMOs, medical colleges staff and other COVID hospital senior functionaries are attending it.

DOCTORS QUARANTINE IN OTHER DISTRICTS

On Tuesday, two doctors, two nurses and 9 other health workers of PRM Medical College and Hospital in Mayurbhanj district were sent to home quarantine as they had come in contact with a woman, who later tested positive for coronavirus.

Similarly, a doctor, who runs a private clinic at Ashok Nagar in Berhampur, and his staff were asked to undergo self-isolation at home after one of the patients undergoing treatment there tested corona positive on Monday. All the patients of the clinic have been shifted to MKCG, sources said.

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DOCTORS INFECTED

So far, five doctors from AIIMS-Bhubaneswar, four from MKCG Medical Colege and Hospital in Berhampur, two from Rourkela Government Hospital and one each from City Hospital in Cuttack, Talcher COVID Hospital and Nayagarh district headquarters hospital have been infected.