Coronavirus patient’s doctor tests positive
The medical officer who treated a coronavirus patient at the capital's Delta Medical College Hospital recently also tested positive for the virus.
The young doctor had received the patient at the emergency centre of the hospital, Dr Md Saiduzzaman, a member of the Foundation for Doctors' Safety & Rights, told The Daily Star yesterday.
Another doctor who assisted him to treat the patient from Tolarbagh is in home-quarantine with five other family members, Dr Das of Kuwait Maitree Hospital said.
Saiduzzaman said the doctor was taken to Kuwait Maitree Hospital, after which he was transferred to Kurmitola General Hospital and put on a ventilator.
He had been running a fever and was taken to hospital after experiencing some breathing difficulties, according to hospital sources.
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