Staff Reporter: A medical officer, who was involved in medical treatment of a coronavirus patient at Dhaka’s Delta Medical College Hospital, now tested positive for the virus.
The young doctor had received the patient at the emergency centre of the hospital, Dr Md Saiduzzaman, a member of the Foundation for Doctors’ Safety & Rights said it to journalists.
Another doctor who assisted him to treat the patient from Tolarbagh is in home-quarantine with five other family members.
Saiduzzaman said the doctor was taken to Kuwait Maitree Hospital, after which he was transferred to Kurmitola General Hospital and put on a ventilator.
He had been running a fever and was taken to hospital after experiencing a little bit respiratory problem.
