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| BMO Magam suspended after giving Covid-19 negative certificate to infected person of Budgam | | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 17: Block Medical Officer (BMO) Magam Dr. Mohammad Taha has been suspended by Director Health Services Kashmir following the ‘negligence’ due to which a Covid-19 positive patient was allowed to go home on the pretext that his report is negative.
“Pending enquiry regarding fake Covid-19 test report issued by Dr. Mohd Taha I/C BMO Magam, he is hereby placed under suspension and is attached with Directorate of Health Services Kashmir with immediate effect till further orders. Necessary charge sheet shall follow,” reads the order issued by Director Health Services Kashmir.
Consequent upon above, Dr. Abid Ali (MD SPM) Medical Officer SDH Magam shall look after the routine work of I/C BMO Magam in addition to his own duties till further orders, the order further reads.
It would be in place to mention that sheer negligence on part of the health authorities in Jawalapora village in Central Kashmir Budgam district has put the lives of people living in the village at risk since they allowed a youth to go to home despite him testing positive for Corona Virus.
Sources said that a youth namely Sahil Ahmad Yatoo, aged 21 years, resident of Jawalapora, Budgam who had returned from Rajasthan last week was allowed to go to his home after the BMO Magam issued a certificate in his favour that he tested negative for COVID-19.
The Covid-19 free certificate issued in favour of Sahil has the signatures of BMO Magam along with the in-charge nodal officer and in-charge medical officer of the quarantine center located at Narbal. His sample for Corona Virus was collected on May 10 by the office of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Budgam and the certificate was issued on May 12.
He was asked by the authorities to be under home quarantine for at least two weeks. After he reached his home, Sahil did not confine himself to the four walls of his house and instead mingled with the people especially youth. He played cricket with the youth of the village as if nothing had happened and everything was honky dory.
While he was at home a party of the health department arrived in the village and informed him that he is Covid-19 positive and as such was taken to some quarantine center. This sent shock waves among the residents of Jawalapora village and they are perplexed over the entire scheme of things.
After Sahil was shifted to the quarantine center the health authorities started the contact tracing and his family members were put on the radar first of all. Four members of the Sahil’s family have so far tested positive and they too have been put under administrative quarantine. The area has since been declared a Red Zone and around 200 people have been taken for sample collection.
Dr. Taha while talking to a local news agency had alleged that he was pressurized by CMO Budgam to release Sahil at the earliest since he tested negative for Covid-19. Dr. Taha said that since internet was not working in the district on the day the report of Sahil was received he could not check the report himself.
“I was pressurized by the CMO to release Sahil, but I did not do it in the first instance. I released him only when the CMO said that his Covid-19 test is negative and there is no fun in holding him back. I was misled by my senior and there is no fault of mine in this whole matter,” Dr. Taha has said. |
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