Test report delay for most cancers sufferers in Odisha as coronavirus compounds distress
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By Express News Service
CUTTACK: Battling with most cancers is a battle for its victims and the Covid-19 pandemic has tilted the dimensions additional making it far harder to cope with it. Perhaps no one understands it higher than 47-year-old most cancers affected person Kumudini Dehuri of Lingarajodi village in Angul district. She was referred to Acharya Harihar Post Graduate Institute of Cancer (AHPGIC) by Angul DHH after she developed extreme abdomen ache and she or he reached the hospital on Monday.
However, the hospital authorities denied admitting her as they had been ready for her Covid take a look at report.“Our swab samples had been collected and despatched for RT-PCR take a look at on Tuesday. While my take a look at report got here adverse on Thursday, Kumudini’s report is but to come back even after 72 hours forcing us to lie together with different sufferers outdoors the hospital, mentioned her attendant Sukanti Sahu.
Like Kumudini, a number of most cancers sufferers are being disadvantaged of therapy at AHPGIC attributable to delay in getting Covid take a look at experiences. The sufferers may be seen mendacity down below the open sky outdoors the hospital.“Cancer sufferers shouldn’t be uncared for like this. The authorities of the premier most cancers hospital of the State ought to guarantee their admission instantly after conducting antigen take a look at.
They ought to arrange a separate facility to confess and deal with the most cancers sufferers suspected to have been contaminated with the virus,” mentioned a well being knowledgeable. Attempts to elicit response from AHPGIC Director Lalatendu Sarangi on the difficulty proved futile.
