- KOLKATA (PTI) -- About 30
per cent of doctors and para medical staff at the Infectious Diseases Hospital,
did not report to work today for the scare of contracting the deadly corona
virus after a patient was declared SARS positive yesterday.
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- Panic spread among the staff and visitors last evening
after reports from Pune-based National Institute of Virology confirmed
Radheshyam Gupta, as the city's second SARS victim on his return from Bankok.
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- Staff shortage at the hospital delayed the X-ray tests
on Jamil Ahmed, the other suspected SARS patient admitted at the hospital
hindering his diagnosis.
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- Indian Medical Association Kolkata branch secretary Sudipto
Roy told PTI that the medical staff were feeling 'positively scared' since
the ID Hospital lacked basic protection gear like WHO-specified masks.
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- "The staff have been given common surgical masks
to protect themselves while treating suspected SARS patients. This is not
enough to protect them from the virus," he said.
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- Pointing out that the state government had been relaxed
about making arrangements despite the fact that Kolkata is the entry point
to most South Asian countries from where the virus may enter India, Roy
said.
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- http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2003/april/51405.htm
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