Pune, Apr 27: Radiological tests conducted today on the four SARS positive patients at the Naidu Hospital here are normal and if pathological report also shows normalcy then they will be discharged, according to the deputy director of health Dr P Gaikwad.
“Their X-ray reports indicate absence of the disease. Now pathological tests will be done on the patients tomorrow and
based on the report, decision will be taken about their
discharge," Gaikwad said today.
However, even after the discharge from the hospital, they would be quarantined for a week at their home as additional precaution, he added.
Medical tests of Dr Ananth Kench, who was treating the SARS patients at the Siddharth Hospital, where they were initially admitted, has turned out to be negative, according to health authorities.
Stanley D'Silva, his mother Vimla and sister Julie – the first cases of SARS in Maharashtra -- and Stanley's uncle Joseph Pawar have tested positive for SARS.
Meanwhile, the residents of Kumar Park, Bibwewadi, where over 10 quarantined patients are being kept have started a signature campaign demanding that those quarantined persons be shifted elsewhere in the interest of other residents, sources said.
Most of the residents of the locality have themselves shifted elsewhere due to the fear of catching infection from the quarantined persons.
The residents have also threatened to stage a rasta roko if the patients are not shifted, the sources added.
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