{"id":157392,"date":"2021-05-03T02:27:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=157392"},"modified":"2021-05-03T02:27:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:57:59","slug":"hospital-botches-up-covid-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/05\/03\/hospital-botches-up-covid-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital botches up Covid report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 2 May:<\/strong> The Itafort hospital here botched a Covid-19 report by marking a positive result as negative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sample for RT-PCR test was collected on 29 April and sent to the state Covid-19 lab in TRIHMS. The lab result clearly stated the sample as being positive. But on 30 April, the Itafort hospital sent out a result signed by the medical officer, which stated that the test result was negative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took some 24 hours for the hospital to realize the mistake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next morning, the parents got a call from the hospital, saying that the result was positive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to this daily, a relative said that she had gone to collect the result and had crosschecked with the hospital to be sure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is mentally traumatizing for the minor patient who was already in isolation for 10 days after coming in direct contact with a positive person,&#8221; a relative said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minor is asymptomatic and in isolation at home along with other family members who came in contact with him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 30 April, the Itafort hospital had dealt with just two results, one of which it marked incorrectly, exposing the entire family to the virus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The family plans to go to the police, so that such negligence does not recur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 2 May: The Itafort hospital here botched a Covid-19 report by marking a positive result as negative. The sample for RT-PCR test was collected on 29 April and sent to the state Covid-19 lab in TRIHMS. The lab result clearly stated the sample as being positive. But on 30 April, the Itafort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}