Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (EP)

Bantwal, Apr 20: An ambulance assistant who worked for 108 had to be admitted to a hospital and kept under quarantine.

The assistant had to be quarantined as a woman from Bantwal was rushed to the hospital on Saturday, April 18, and succumbed to the virus on Sunday. It was only after her death it was found that she had contracted the virus. The woman had to be brought on oxygen support from Bantwal to Mangaluru by a 108 ambulance.

Assuming the patient to be an ordinary one, the guard had installed the oxygen tube without any PPE. After transporting the patient to Mangaluru hospital, the support staff was rushing to Hoovinahadagalu, in Ballari district in his bike to see his sick mother. While it was detected that the woman had died of coronavirus, the health department looked for people in close proximity with the deceased, which led to take the ambulance assistant to be taken into quarantine along with the ambulance driver.

The assistant was on his way to Ballari and had reached Ranibennur in Haveri district when he had received the call to be quarantined. The assistant was quarantined in Ranibennur hospital while the driver of the ambulance was quarantined in Bantwal hospital.