M’luru: Complaints registered for misuse of entry to district

Team Udayavani, Apr 10, 2020, 1:11 PM IST

Mangaluru: Complaints have been registered after it came to light that the conditional permission to enter the Dakshina Kannada district for non-COVID-19 patients from Kerala has been misused on two occassions.

Patients are allowed into the district after filling an online form and getting it authorized from the medical officer from Kasargod district hospital.

On April 9, a patient had arrvived at the district hospital complaining of head ache. After preliminary check up by the physician he left in an ambulance that had arrived from Kasargod earlier carrying another patient without informing the physician.

Another case of misuse of a patient arriving with report of heart ailment but was found to be suffeering from high fever. He was brought in for COVID-19 test and after he left it was found that he had been taken back to a private hospital. This incident has made many suspect the veracity of the medical certificate issued by the authorities at Kasargod.