Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, May 15: The state government has viewed with seriousness the fact that First Nero Hospital and Bantwal Kasaba village have been major contributors to coronavirus infection cases in Dakshina Kannada district. It has also noted that the officials have failed to reach to the bottom of the infection trail in both the cases. Therefore, a team of state level experts would be deputed to find out the root of the infection.

A reliable source said that experts from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences will be probing the issue and try to find where the infection originated.

First Neuro Hospital

These two spots have caused lot of problems in three districts. The hospital has caused 18 coronavirus cases in Dakshina Kannada, 21 in Bhatkal, and two from Udupi district, totalling to 41. A team of district administration has suspected that the infection would have spread originally from Kerala. It is said that the district health department has already written to the state government seeking to subject people from Kerala who were treated in the said hospital in the past to corona test. It is said that between February 1 and April 24, 1,606 outpatients and 612 in-patients were treated at the hospital and if all the 2,218 are subjected to corona test, it may be possible to pinpoint where the infection started first.

The people in general are baffled at the failure of the team to reach to the root of coronavirus spread from both the hospital and Bantwal even after working on it for three weeks. The opposition has been seeking high level probe.

Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister Kota Srinivas Poojary, however said that he has no information about a team of state level experts arriving here to probe the origin of coronavirus infection.