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Delhi, 06/04/2020: “The
first-ever a Delhi Mohalla clinic brave doctor Dr Gopal Jha risking his
own life by way of attending the Dubai-returned COVID-19 patient Ms Shama
later being found himself positive with the Coronavirus has been
discharged from the New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital", informed the social
worker and noted author Dr Birbal Jha, a close friend of the physician.
"Dr
Gopal is now home and likely to return to his professional practice once he is
found to be fit for the job", said Dr Birbal Jha, who had written an
urgent letter to Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for
immediate protective measures for the medical professionals and others.
Following
that as many as 1200 people of a chain of the patient - the doctor and their
contacts were put in quarantine and self isolation as a preventive measure
against any further infection in the national capital.
“I am
grateful to the medical fraternity and central as well as NCT Government for
their sincerity in rendering their medical and moral support..Furthermore I
extend my sincerest thanks to everyone for their prayers and wishes for my
recovery from the infection”, said Dr Gopal Jha committed to his medical
profession with an iron will.
Dr Gopal Jha
was first admitted to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital where he was put up in the
isolation ward and later on being serious transferred to Safdarjung Hospital
intensive care unit with the personal intervention of Central Health Minister
Dr Harsh Vardhan.
However,
his infected wife and daughter are still in the isolation wards of
GTB Hospital in Delhi.
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