On Wednesday, the Health Department reportedly suspended an anaesthetist of Narsipatnam Area Hospital, Sudhakar Rao after refuting the allegations made by him over shortage of mask, PPEs.
Dr Sudhakar Rao had made allegations expressing concern over the safety of doctors treating COVID-19 suspects at Narsipatnam hospital.
This didn’t go well with the netizens and the suspension sparked a debate on the social media by the evening. More than 3,400 tweets with a hashtag #westandwithDrSudhakar were posted in Twitter. A number of messages were shared in WhatsApp groups against the action.
For those unaware, Meanwhile, of the 624 samples sent from the district so far, 51 cases have been tested negative for COVID-19 on Wednesday. Till Tuesday, 483 patients have tested negative, taking the total to 534 so far.
“The number of positive cases in the district is 20 and the report of 70 other patients is awaited,” according to Collector V. Vinay Chand.
The number of patients in the isolation wards is 72. Of the 537 patients in the District-level COVID Hospitals in the district, 465 have been discharged, the Collector said.
