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Hyderabad: While the fingers are pointing in the Telangana state government to the test of least people for Covid-19, it seems that some corporate hospitals in Hyderabad have been secretly conducting corona tests on their facilities in their doctors, VIPs and their families. These results of the test or series of tests does not figure in the daily medical bulletin issued by the government, ensuring that
the total number of infections remains low.
The hospital of the management of the companies — at least two great names — convinced certain key figures in the state government, citing the security of their medical as the reason, and got a nod to the performance of the tests, although unofficially.
Highly placed sources told Deccan Chronicle that the best doctors working in corporate hospitals began to worry after a group of doctors and paramedics in two of the major corporate hospitals came in contact with the coronavirus-positive patients in the month of March. In anticipation that this would be an everyday problem in these times of pandemic, took the matter with the administration and urged them to pull the strings in the government.
Under pressure from doctors, the hospital management company met a key minister in the state government and persuaded him to allow them to carry on
tests exclusively to their doctors if they were to become infected or developed
symptoms. They, however, has the government ensured that the number of tests or
the positive cases are not reflected in any place in their records.
“It is a quid pro quo. Works well for both the hospitals and the government,” a
the doctor, who was one of those who underwent the test in the hospital will
of work, said to this newspaper.
He said that the corporate hospitals are not against the evidence from around the world and, in fact, the
Indian council of Medical Research (icmr) has allowed eight private hospitals
for testing. “But the government does not want that the project of the real numbers as
they feel that goes against the interests of the state,” he said.
The state government has also restricted to eight (icmr) approved private hospitals and the laboratories conducting the tests, perhaps fearing that with the participation of private actors, who have little control over the numbers, which until now have remained very low, deliberately.
Although some of these hospitals have purchased the RT-PCR kits for the test, the sources said that the government does not release the lab codes and the formatting necessary to begin the tests.
In Telangana, the state government has notified eight government hospitals as
the designated hospitals for the Covid-19 patients. Until now, the government has been
keep that if Covid-19 tests are carried out in corporate hospitals, there is a
the danger of these hospitals has become a major source for the spread of the
virus killer.
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