Tasaduq Hussain
Srinagar, July 17 (KNO): At least 50 COVID positive patients who turned negative earlier desperately await their swab results even after passing seven days at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar fearing they may contract the disease again as more positive patients get regular admission there.
Fifty individuals including travellers who earlier tested positive for novel coronavirus and proved negative in the prevailing month whose second round of swabs were taken on July 10 await their swab results desperately as the positive figure has shown huge surge in past few days with affected getting regular admissions at NIT Srinagar.
The aggrieved patients told a news agency that even after passing of seven days authorities seem to be non-serious about our safety as more and more positive patients get admission here forcing all to mingle and use common bathroom and collect the food from same spot increasing the chances to contract the virus from high viral load patients.
The patients said that at least 50 of us have proved negative while the second round of samples were collected on July 10 result of which is yet awaited leaving us on god's mercy as the number of positive patients is showing a surge so are more getting admitted here for isolation which increases the risk of getting infected again.
They said that a huge number of patients are already here who use the common washroom and collect the food from the same spot which should have happened with the patients who have already proved negative.
One of the patients who tested negative said that as per the norms and guidelines a patient has to mandatorily observe 14 days quarantine which we have completed but even after completion of around 18 days and seven days of second round of swabs authorities have left us to crumble here among the positive patients at NIT Srinagar forcing us to fear for safety.
The aggrieved negative turned patients have requested the medical authorities and administration to get the out of the vicinity soon as possible and declare their swab results at an earliest. (KNO)
