Over a week in hospital, Tablighi workers yet to be examined
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New Delhi: Tablighi workers who have been in Delhi hospital for over a week with ‘symptoms’ have not yet been examined.
Hundreds of them without disease, including Malayalees, are housed intermingling with those tested positive for the COVID-19.
Meanwhile, police have started examining mobile phones of those who had been present the Tablighi headquarters.
Tablighi workers who had been evacuated on March 29 from the sect’s Nizamuddin headquarters are housed intermingled with COVID-19 patients.
Three Malayalees alongside those from Madhya Pradesh were put in Isolation ward at LNJP Hospital on March 29.
However, some sources spread the news that they had COVID-19 although not a single one of those 32 in the ward was examined.
Samples for test were not collected until late into Sunday evening. Most of those 300 housed at the hospital’s surgery block have not been tested.
The medical procedure of housing patients and suspects separately has not yet been implemented in the case of Tablighi workers. Instead, both the patients and others have been housed intermingled.
In the eight wards, each housing 34 or 32 Tablighi workers, patients numbering about two, three or four are intermingled.
They have not been shifted to the newly vacant wards.
Mobile phones of many in the hospital were confiscated on Sunday.