Staff Correspondent
DIBRUGARH: The second floor of the Medicine Department in Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) has been transformed into containment zone following two of undergoing patients' swab tests for COVID-19 coming positive.
The patients were identified as Rajiv Borgohain of Lakuwa in Sivsagar district and Gulban Das of Chabua in Dibrugarh district and both were undergoing treatment in the Medicine ward of AMCH.
Rajib Borgohain was in quarantine at Navoday Vidyalaya of Moran. He suffered from diarrhoea and was later admitted in the isolation ward of AMCH for further treatment. Swab tests of Borgohain was done twice during his quarantine period but both times the report of the sample test was negative. As a result, doctors had put Borgohain in ward no. 5 under the Medicine Department of AMCH. The reports of the third swab test conducted recently came positive.
Similarly, Gulban Das, who was also in quarantine at Navoday Vidyalaya, was admitted in the Medicine Department of AMCH for treatment of mild fever and diarrhoea last Monday. Like Borgohain, his third swab test was found positive.
With these two new COVID-19 positive cases, the number of COVID-19 positive cases in the district has risen to 39. Swab samples of all 60 patients who were undergoing treatment for various ailments at Ward No. 5 of the Medicine Department of AMCH were taken for tests, besides seven doctors, two nurses and one ward boy who were attached to ward no. 5. Sensing the gravity of the situation, the Principal-cum-Chief Superintendent of AMCH, by an order declared the second floor of the Medicine Department of the college as Containment Zone and prohibited entry of any individual in the area except health workers. The order comes into immediate effect until further order.
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