Cases of forceful admission into hospitals is becoming very common nowadays. In a strange development, asymptomatic COVID-19 patients in Bengaluru are allegedly forced to get admitted to the government-run COVID Care Centres even if they have adequate facilities to undergo isolation at their own homes. Apart from being an exercise of poor utilization of beds which are in a limited number, it has also exposed the lacunas of the CCCs.
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A leading daily reported such incidents as they spoke to at least three patients who claimed that they were forced to go to the CCCs even when they had adequate facilities to be under home isolation following the government protocols. Nikhil Soni and his uncle, residents of Cubbonpet, had tested positive for the novel coronavirus on August 1 and had opted for home isolation as the doctor diagnosed them as being asymptomatic.
While they were maintaining home isolation till August 5, BBMP officials reportedly said that they needed to be transferred as their home facilities were not “suitable”. Speaking to a leading daily, Nikhil said, “While at home, there is separate washroom for both my uncle and me, here we are forced to share it with five other persons. In addition, there are many problems— the flush does not work and we have to use buckets from the other washroom. This is difficult for my uncle as he is old.”
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“If we have to maintain physical distancing how is this better than home? From when we got admitted, no doctor has visited us. We were merely given some medicines for fever. Due to the disease, we anyway have less appetite, and here we don’t like the food as we are not familiar with the taste,” he added.
