115 medicos test COVID positive
The Hindu
Around 115 budding doctors and healthcare professionals from two major government hospitals in Telangana tested COVID positive on Tuesday.All of them have only mild infection and will be under isolati
Around 115 budding doctors and healthcare professionals from two major government hospitals in Telangana tested COVID positive on Tuesday.All of them have only mild infection and will be under isolation for seven days. Senior officials said that a cluster of cases were expected as Omicron is highly transmissible and the doctors are in frontline.
At least 79 MBBS students, house surgeons, Post Graduates and faculty from Osmania Medical College (OMC) tested positive for the infection till Tuesday evening. And 36 MBBS and PG students from Gandhi Medical College too were detected with the infection.
Senior doctors and junior doctors from Osmania General Hospital said that the 79 healthcare professionals from OMC were isolated either at their homes or at the college hostel. “The 79 cases are among 35 house surgeons, 19 MBBS students, 23 PGs, two faculty members,” said the doctors.
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