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Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital in Sinamangal has been shut for an indefinite duration after two of its health employees contracted COVID-19.
The hospital & s Medical Director Dr Mukunda Raj Joshi releasing a notification today, informed that the medical facility would be closed for indefinite duration for disinfection.
2 clients and two health employees at the health center checked positive for coronavirus.
The health center & s emergency situation ward has actually likewise been shut till more notice.
& We would need 24 to two days to decontaminate the hospital prior to resuming service, & said a hospital source.
The healthcare facility refuted the Ministry of Health and Population & s declaration that four doctor of the hospital had actually contracted the infection.
A physician working at the medical facility stated that a patient who had actually gone through neurosurgery in the health center around 8 days earlier had contracted the virus.
& We requested the federal government to test the client for the infection before operation, but the government didn & t acted promptly and we could not wait, & said a physician on condition of privacy.
The same client was transferred to Tribhuvan University Mentor Healthcare facility after he evaluated favorable for COVID-19.
The patient caught the infection today, becoming the ninth patient to pass away due to the virus in the country.
A version of this post appears in e-paper on June 4, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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