Horrible Hyderabad: 2200 covid patients missing – health sector towards disaster

Already the COVID-19 spread in the greater Hyderabad is at unbelievable levels and now, another news that got out in this critical situation is just terrifying. Much to the Panic of the Hyderabad people, The GHMC officials said that around 2200 coronavirus patients have gone missing in Hyderabad for the last two weeks.

All these missing patients have been advised to be under home isolation as their condition is not severe and they exhibit few symptoms. Now, to everyone’s surprise, the phone numbers and addresses that were given by these patients seemed to be wrong. Though these patients don’t have any threat to their own lives, they can spread the virus to the public at ease if they don’t confine themselves to their houses.

This incident came into light when the officials tried to contact the patients to hand over home isolation kits. The GHMC officials failed to trace the patients. Some of them gave the wrong phone numbers and the temporary addresses of some are different from their permanent addresses.

GHMC additional commissioner (Health) Badhavath Santosh said that some of the patients are going contactless after learning that they have tested positive for coronavirus. “Around 10 members who tested positive have given the same phone number and the GHMC officials are unable to reach on the number,” Lokesh Kumar said.