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COVID-19: Long queues outside Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, most return without being tested

With only a handful of medics present, the process takes time, leading to a long queue. Most people lining up took more than three hours to get consulted or tested.

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The patients of having symptoms of cough, cold fever and shortness of breath have been lining up for coronavirus screening at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Delhi. Hundreds of patients are lining up since last week to check if they have the disease and from that long queue, only a few are being screened.

In Delhi, there are only two hospitals that are offering sample collection facilities at the moment and thus it is Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and Safdarjung Hospitals. They are only testing people who have the travel history abroad and who have been in contact with a confirmed coronavirus case, else others are not being tested.

According to hospital authorities, 25-30 samples are being collected every day.

If they have traveled abroad or been in touch with a positive case and have the symptoms, they are led to screening ward 5 in the adjacent building, through a passage away from the registration, a spokesperson of the hospital said.

Many people without either a travel history or contact with a positive case, but with flu-like symptoms or shortness of breath, have been trying to get tested, only to be referred to the OPD or the emergency. A 30-year-old resident of Laxmi Nagar with a cold and sore throat was turned back. “They told me to go to the emergency,” he said, according to reports of IndianExpress.

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With only a handful of medics present, the process takes time, leading to a long queue. Most people lining up took more than three hours to get consulted or tested.

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