A mentally unstable man who was coronavirus positive managed to escape from the hospital, the man was undergoing the treatment at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital managed to sneak out of the hospital on Monday night. However, Chennai Corporation officials with the help of the police managed to take him back to the hospital after alerted by his neighbors.
According to official sources, he managed to walk out of the hospital without anybody noticing and reached his home in Pullianthope on foot.
It was after much effort that the officials managed to convince the patient to go back to the hospital.
“After speaking to the Health Department, we arranged a vehicle on Monday night to take him back to the hospital. But he was not willing to come. We then locked his house so that he wouldn’t be able to leave. On Tuesday morning, a vehicle was arranged again and with the help of police, he was taken back to the hospital,” said a source in Chennai Corporation.
The Tamil Nadu government has raised walls across roads bordering Andhra Pradesh to stop the movement of vehicles amid coronavirus lockdown in the country.
The walls, built to a height of up to 7-ft, have been raised at two key entry and exit points on the Chittoor-Ponni-Chennai road and Chittoor-Gudiyatham road in Chittoor district.
The decision to raise the walls at the Andhra border was taken to regulate the movement of vehicles in the wake of the second phase of lockdown.
