Runaway Covid patients tracked down, returned

Officers tracked down the 10 Covid-19 patients, who fled from Jashore General Hospital from April 18-24 and sent them back to the facility last night.

Seven of the 10 Covid-19 patients recently came back to the country from India through Benapole border where they tested positive for coronavirus.

They were taken to the hospital under police surveillance from there, said Resident Medical Officer Arif Ahmed, adding that many of them gave false phone numbers and addresses at the time of the admission and slid out of the hospital later.

Hospital Superintendent Dilip Kumar Roy said he contacted the deputy commissioner, superintendent of police and civil surgeon of different districts to find the patients.

Law enforcers and administration officials had to raid different areas to find them, officials said.

[Our Benapole correspondent and a correspondent from Jashore contributed to the report]