Delhi Junior Resident Doctor Who Had COVID-19 Symptoms, But Tested Negative Twice, Dies
According to family members, though Dr Abhishek Bhayana was not posted at the COVID-19 ward, he was involved in the screening of suspected patients.
A Junior Resident Doctor at Delhi Maulana Azad Institute for Dental Sciences (MAIDS) who had complained of having COVID-19 symptoms has died.
Dr Abhishek Bhayana, who, his family says had showing COVID-19-like symptoms some ten days ago died on Thursday.
facebook
Abhishek who was posted in the department of oral surgery of the dental institute had complained of chest congestion and breathlessness hours before his death, his elder brother said.
¡°An X-ray was performed and we were told he has a chest infection,¡± his brother Aman Bhayana told The Indian Express. ¡°We were under the impression that it was nothing but viral fever. But he kept saying the symptoms were not of chest infection as he was having shortness of breath,¡± he said.
On Thursday morning he started to feel dizzy and as his condition worsened the family took him to a nearby private hospital. The doctors there administered oxygen to him, but it was too late.
BCCL/ FILE
The family said that the 26-year-old had tested twice for COVID-19, both turned out to be negative.
According to family members, though Abhishek was not posted at the COVID-19 ward, he was involved in the screening of suspected patients.
The death of the junior doctor, who his friends recall as a bright student once again shows the risk doctors and other frontline healthcare workers put themselves into every day amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
AP
Last week Delhi lost another frontline worker after a senior doctor at the LNJP Hospital, which is one of the dedicated COVID-19 hospitals in the national capital died of the viral infection. Dr. Asheem Gupta, a senior consultant of anesthetics at the LNJP Hospital, died Sunday, days after he tested positive for Covid-19.
In April the Delhi Government had announced that if anybody loses their life while serving any COVID-19 patient, be it sanitation workers, doctors, nurses or any other staff, temporary or permanent, from government or private sector, their next of kin would be given ?1 crore as a mark of respect for their service.
Though the exact number of frontline workers in Delhi who have contracted the virus while on duty is unclear, it is estimated to be over 2,000.
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
Read More
