KATHMANDU, July 25: It has been reported that a cholera patient who escaped from Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Teku was later found at Kathmandu Medical College (KMC) and subsequently returned to Teku.
The patient, along with others who fled from Teku Hospital on Tuesday night, arrived at KMC after experiencing worsening health conditions. After receiving some treatment at KMC, the patient was found to have returned to Teku, according to the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division.
Dr Mukesh Poudel, chief of the Epidemiology & Outbreak Management Section, stated, “Among the three who fled, one was found to have reached KMC. It appears that after receiving treatment there, he has returned to Teku.”
Three cholera patients escape from Teku Hospital
Three patients from Thaiba, Lalitpur, were admitted to the hospital on Sunday. They ran away from the hospital on Tuesday night.
The in-charge of the emergency room of the hospital, Bhaneshwor Yadav, said that the trio escaped from the hospital within an interval of one and a half hours. One of them escaped through the ventilation of one of the toilets at the hospital while the other two escaped from the ward.
Four people were brought to the Teku Hospital from a rehabilitation center run by the Drugs Free Society Nepal at Thaiba, Lalitpur. One of them was referred to Patan Hospital on Sunday after the patient complained of having serious health complications.
Cholera was confirmed during a rapid test after the clients showed symptoms of diarrhea at the rehabilitation center in Thaiba, Lalitpur. The District Public Health Office, Lalitpur and the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division sent them to Teku Hospital after they tested positive for cholera.
Similarly, a youth who had tested positive for cholera from the same center on July 14 is undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of the Teku Hospital.
