Physician who treated Tolarbagh virus patient hospitalised

The physician who treated a coronavirus case from the capital’s Tolarbagh before his death was hospitalised in Dhaka with severe respiratory complications on Sunday night.

He is currently under treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Kuwait Bangladesh Government Friendship Hospital in Uttara.

Earlier, a coronavirus infected patient who died Saturday, was under his treatment at Delta Hospital.

He had treated the coronavirus patient in the emergency department of the hospital. On Saturday, he first reported his breathing complications and his condition worsened by Sunday afternoon, a physician of Delta Hospital said on condition of anonymity.

IEDCR has reportedly collected samples from the physician’s body.

Kuwait Bangladesh Government Friendship Hospital is one of the very few hospitals in Dhaka that offer treatment for coronavirus infected people.