Case of mistaken identity: Covid negative man made to spend 3 days at quarantine centre in Panna

BHOPAL

: In a glaring act of carelessness in Panna, a man was admitted at the corona care center for three days and was looked after as a

corona positive patient

.

Last night around 10pm, he was discharged by the centre saying, " he was not positive." Later it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity as the man with the same name was positive but a different man was picked up.

The chief medical and health officer (CMHO) Dr LK Tiwari of Panna admitted that it happened because of mistaken identity.

A teacher by profession,

Kamal Kishore Dubey

, about 50 year of age, was shocked to learn that he was corona positive when health workers in PPE kit knocked at his door informing him about the disease. Dubey found an ambulance parked near his house ready to escort him to a

quarantine centre

.

After three days of stress and consuming some medicines, the officials discharged him saying his report was negative.

After he was discharged, Dubey told local media, “How would I go home as my house is also sealed. The whole mohalla is thinking that I am a corona positive. I have earned a bad name (badnami ho gayee) in the whole city and the society.”

He said despite the fact that “I was not corona positive, for three days I was given medicines in the afternoon and evening. Besides, I was also offered kadha . My

BP

and sugar were also monitored. Then I was told ( on Wednesday night) that I was not positive. And when I insisted I was shown my corona negative report.”

He said an ambulance with a driver wearing a PPE kit had arrived and picked him up from his house. “I was treated like a corona patient but now they said I was not”, he reiterated

Denying that it was “carelessness”, Dr GP Arya nodal officer quarantine centre said, “ Ye it was a lapse.”

“There were two people with the same name and almost the same address living close by .Our staff members were not able to identify who was positive and who was not.”