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of Budhanilkantha Town Uddhav Prasad Kharel told THT that a 37-year-old male from Ward 3 of the municipality who checked positive for the illness on Monday had been transferring ill individuals needing immediate care-- primarily kidney clients and pregnant ladies-- to healthcare facilities in the capital for the previous two months.
He transferred — patients to numerous hospitals as no ambulance was offered in the area.
& He did accept cash clients provided him, however it was largely a service to the neighborhood, & Kharel stated.
Kharel stated the guy informed him that he may have transferred 1,500 individuals to health centers.
& That figure looks overstated however he may have carried around 600-700 people to medical facilities, & Kharel said.
He included that the town was coordinating with government authorities to check all the patients carried by the guy for COVID.
Swabs of 46 individuals from his municipality have actually been gathered, whose outcomes will come out on Tuesday.
A variation of this article appears in e-paper on May 26, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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