Team Herald
PANJIM: The Goa Association of Resident Doctors (GARD) has urged the government to provide separate accommodation facility for doctors tested positive COVID-19.
In a letter to the Secretary (Health), the GARD President Dr Pratik Sawant said that amid the Coronavirus second wave crisis, at least 15 doctors have tested positive with another eight doctors having symptoms and awaiting test reports.
Dr Sawant said that there is urgent need for a separate accommodation facility for doctors who test positive, as they cannot be accommodated in the general hostel for fear of transmission of infection. Most of these doctors do not have any other place fort quarantine.
