TIWN July 30, 2020
Agartala, July 30 (TIWN) Four COVID-19 patients were booked after they allegedly abused and spat on a woman doctor at a health facility here, police said on Thursday.
A police official said that the four accused, who have recovered from the disease, will be arrested after the completion of their seven-day institutional quarantine period.
“Some coronavirus patients last week spat at and aggressively abused West Tripura District Health Surveillance Officer Sangita Chakraborty at a Covid care centre in Agartala when she had gone there on Friday to admit five women who had given birth to babies a day before,” the police officer said.
Chakraborty also told the media: “One of the patients rinsed his mouth and spat on my head from the roof of the Covid care centre, forcing me to rush inside the centre.”
She said they had reached the care centre with a health department team and police personnel to admit the new patients when a group of people, men and women, obstructed and falsely claimed that there were no vacant beds in the centre.
“When requested by the other doctors and nurses to return to their beds, some of them started agitating using filthy language, spat at me and threatened to touch me and infect me with coronavirus,” the health officer said.
Tripura Health and Family Welfare Department Director Radha Debbarma said that the appropriate authority would take stern action against the accused persons.