ESI Hospital Lab Closed After Over 70 Technicians Found Covid-19 in Faridabad

The pathological test laboratory of a Faridabad-based ESI Hospital dedicated to the treatment of COVID-19 patients has been closed after around 70 lab technicians were found infected. Faridabad is one of the worst-affected districts, having reported 21 COVID deaths and 1,050 patients till date.

The lab must be shut down three days back, emergency clinic's Deputy Civil Surgeon, Dr Ram Bhagat said on Friday. 

The clinical tests in the devoted COVID-19 treatment place would continue simply after the enlistment of new staff members, he included. 

He said all works identified with the assortment of test tests of suspected patients were suspended and the test lab was shut after more than 70 percent of its professionals were



discovered tainted with coronavirus.

The has led to the hospital staff facing great difficulty in getting patients tested for the infection, he said, adding the hospital is now managing to have their patients tested at a facility in Nalhar and one other place in the city.

Dr Bhagat, also the district’s nodal officer for COVID cases, said a total of 21 people have died of COVID-19 and associated co-morbidities till date in Faridabad, where a total of 1,050 people have been found infected with the virus.

Out of the infected 1,050 people, 404 were treated in hospitals, while 305 were administered medicare after having them home-quarantined, he said, a total of 320 patients have been discharged from hospitals after they were cured.