22 year old Doctor, case of dogbite, now on ventilator as hospitals refused him admission on coronavirus scare

Mumbai: In a shocking case from Maharashtra, 4 private hospitals refused to provide admission and treatment to a 22 year old doctor, as they suspected him to be suffering from coronavirus.

While Medical dialogues team could not verify the case, The New Indian Express has reported the same in detail adding that the doctor who was studying in Kolhapur had come to his hometown Bhusawal from Pune. Here, he complained of fever but when tried to approach private hospitals for treatment, he was refused admission, as doctors suspected his fever to be due to coronavirus

"We were shocked to see how doctors treated a member of their own fraternity. They should have given him at least primary treatment. After knocking the door of private hospitals, at the end of the day, we went to a government hospital as well. But there also the doctor told us they do not have facilities to treat coronavirus patients. They declared him corona positive without taking his blood samples," social activist Pratibha Shinde told the Indian Express.