How two doctors serving in largest covid treatment facility of Gujarat since May 2020 evaded Covid-19 infection

Gandhinagar: Two senior doctors serving at State’s largest Asarwa civil hospital haven’t got infection of covid-19 till now despite their duty in covid-19 wards since May 2020. They follow the principle of SMS (Social distancing, Masks and Sanitization).

The superintendent at Asarwa civil hospital in Ahmedabad Dr Rakesh Joshi and Additional Superintendent Dr Rajnish Patel haven’t got infection of covid-19 despite serving in the wards where the possibility of virus transmission of covid-19 was the highest. A 1200-bed dedicated covid hospital in Asarwa campus of civil hospital was the largest covid treating facility in Gujarat.

Both doctors followed preventive measures such as wearing N-95 and surgical masks and changing it from time to time, entering and checking the patients in covid-19 ward with wearing PPE kits, and wearing masks, observing social distance and sanitizing hands also outside covid-19 wards.

Both doctors took the covid-19 vaccine on the first day of the vaccination drive on 16th January 2021. They have also taken the precaution dose (third dose or booster dose) of the vaccine yesterday on 10th January 2022. DeshGujarat