Kashmir News Trust
Srinagar, Apr 15: Eight COVID -19 patients, including a 10 year old boy from Srinagar, were discharged from hospitals after they recovered, in Srinagar, Bandipora and Pulwama districts on Wednesday.
“ The 10 year old boy who was tested positive for the COVID-19 infection a couple of weeks ago is stable and has recovered fully. He has was discharged from the hospital today and besides him 3 more patients who also recovered were sent home,” Nodal officer for Coronavirus at SKIMS, Dr Ghulam Hasan Itoo told KNT.
This 10 year old boy from Rathpora Eidgah had been tested positive after he came into contact with a Tableegi Jamat member in a local mosque. “We had collected his samples repeatedly and thankfully, his reconfirmation test was found out negative once again,” he said adding that the boy has been handed over to family and he is fine.
In Eidgah locality, three patients have tested positive for COVID-19 so far.
Dr Itoo said that among the four patients who were discharged from the hospital, two were from Bandipora and one from Budgam.
Meanwhile, two more COVID-19 positive patients were discharged from Bandipora hospital on Wednesday.
Two COVID-19 patients were also discharged from District Hospital Pulwama after they recovered.
Dr Mir Mushtaq told KNT that both the patients have been cured and they tested negative.
