Justin D’Silva

Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi

Udupi, May 22: In a shockingly risky attempt, a social worker shifted a Covid19 positive patient from Udupi to Karwar without wearing a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kit. Ansar Ahmed is the social worker who took this risk just to save the patient who was stressed out after learning that he had tested corona-positive.

The 25-year-old patient was admitted to a private hospital in Udupi for Cancer treatment. He had tested corona-positive in the hospital. After testing positive, he was totally anxious. He also started claiming that corona-patients’ kidney will be stolen and insisted that he wants to go home. At 12:30 pm, Ansar, Pramodh Ucchil and Karthik, with the help of hospital staff, shifted him to an ambulance to drop him to Karwar, his hometown.

Ansar Ahmed

But within five minutes of leaving the hospital premises, the patient escaped from the moving ambulance and the ambulance driver was helpless. Social workers rushed to the spot and succeeded in bringing him to a center in Udupi where the district administration has made arrangements for stay of homeless. He was kept in isolation for a night therein.

On Friday May 20, Ansar decided to drop the patient to Karwar in his own ambulance. He wore a PPE kit and took all the necessary precautions. But seeing Ansar in a PPE kit, the patient again refused to go with him and complained that they have come to remove his kidney.

In the end, Ansar took the risk of driving the ambulance just by wearing a mask. He successfully drove the ambulance till Karwar and admitted the patient at Karwar government Covid hospital.