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PETALING JAYA: Confusion about two men with the same name is believed to have led to a man being discharged from the hospital even though he had tested positive for Covid-19.
Alleged negligence on the part of Serdang Hospital, Kajang’s Azra Ghaz said the hospital claimed that they had confused her husband’s test results because there was another patient with the same name.
In a complaint letter to the Health Ministry dated December 27, spotted by FMT, Azra said that her husband was admitted to the hospital for suspected blood cancer on December 7. He also suffered from diabetes, hypertension, and heart problems.
She said her husband was believed to have contracted Covid-19 during his 12-day hospital stay after another patient in the same ward tested positive.
However, the hospital said her husband had tested negative and that he and other patients who allegedly also tested negative were transferred to different beds in the same ward.
On December 17, her husband was sent home after the hospital informed him that there were not enough beds and that the ward needed to be sanitized.
He was given a pink bracelet and asked to complete the mandatory home quarantine for another four days.
Before her husband returned home, Azra said, she sent her parents and their seven-year-old son to their hometown of Johor as a precaution.
“During his quarantine at home, I practiced the necessary SOPs,” he said. “I isolated my husband in a separate room.”
He also practiced physical distancing and wore a mask at home.
“All of my husband’s personal items were repeatedly disinfected. We also reduced face-to-face conversations and communicated via WhatsApp to reduce the risk of infection. “
On December 21, Azra took her husband to the same hospital where it was stated that he had completed his mandatory home surveillance order. “My husband was also informed that he had tested negative during the second Covid-19 RT-PCR test.”
After that, he said, they also gave him a discharge letter from the hospital.
Azra said she later stopped practicing standard operating procedures at home, as her husband had allegedly tested negative on both tests and was no longer in quarantine.
“I also asked our son to come home from Johor. That same night, my younger brother visited us together with my son. “
However, two days later, on December 23, she and her husband were shocked when the hospital called to inform them that she had actually tested positive for Covid-19.
She said the hospital claimed they had given her the wrong results as there was another patient with the same name.
Azra said they had to wait another 30 hours for the hospital to send an ambulance to take him to Sungai Buloh Hospital.
In her letter of complaint, she also said that her husband, who suffered from a painful hip condition that restricted his movements, was forced to wait another six hours in a hallway in Kajang before boarding a bus to transport patients to the Sungai Buloh hospital.
She claimed that the decision to send her husband home after he became infected had endangered her life and that of her family, adding that she also suffers from asthma, diabetes and hypertension.
She questioned how the hospital could have given them incorrect Covid-19 detection results, as the patients’ MyKad numbers were written on each bracelet.
“I hope that the Ministry of Health can consider providing adequate care and support to my family,” he said.
