COVID positive PG Anaesthesia medico of ASRAM medical college found dead in isolation

Andhra Pradesh: In a tragic incident, yet another doctor is reported to have succumbed to coronavirus disease. Recently, a student of the Final year PG anaesthesia course at the Department of Anaesthesia of ASRAM Medical College was found dead in a lodge in Eluru.
According to a recent media report, he was staying in isolation in a lodge and decided to adopt self-medication after being infected with COVID -19. Due to the lockdown, no lodge was available in the locality; however, he found a lodge room through some contacts and isolated himself in one of the lodge rooms.
Informing about the incident, police officials said that the student checked in on the lodge on June 25th, but he did not come out of his room for three days. Identifying his absence, the hotel staff soon informed the police.
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The police after reaching the lodge called him from outside and even knocked on the door but after getting no response from inside, they broke into the hotel room where the medico was found lying dead, reports TOI.
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