Family Members of over 50 discharged CoronaVirus patients at the Hyderabad unwilling to take them back home

Hyderabad: Family members of many CoronaVirus patients at Gandhi Hospital, who have been discharged by hospital authorities, are refusing to take them home again.

He said many from including these 50 patients have waited in front of the hospital for several hours to go home to their home. “When no one from their relatives came to pick them, we re-admitted them back to the hospital and give them beds to stay.

Dr Prabhakar Rao, Gandhi Hospital, said there are “over 50 patients comprising men and women who tested positive for CoronaVirus ” and had undergone treatment at the hospital over last 10-15 days. “All of them are in good health and have no symptoms. We have discharged them and declared them fit for home quarantine. But their family members are refusing to take their patients (relatives) to their residences,” he said.

There are two age groups in these patients,” Dr Rao added. He said they have kept the group in the higher age bracket in Gandhi Hospital and the other group of people aged around 50 years has been shifted to Nature Cure Hospital.

“Their families are also asking us to do testing to make sure that they are negative. In this critical condition doing tests again and again is not possible,” he said.

Dr Rao cited the case of a 93-year-old CoronaVirus positive woman, who was admitted to Gandhi Hospital 15 days ago and is now fine and fit to get discharged from the hospital.

He said her family members are not coming forward to take her to their residence and she is in hospital.

In another case, an 85-year-old-person, who tested positive and got admitted to Gandhi Hospital 16 days ago, is now having no symptoms and is fit for home quarantine.

“But his family members are refusing to take him to their residence and are requesting a re-test, Dr Rao said.

Gandhi Hospital is the assigned nodal center in Telangana to treat CoronaVirus cases.