COVID-19: Lab technician collects swab from grave in Haveri
Team Udayavani, May 13, 2020, 10:49 AM IST
Haveri: In a bizarre incident, a lab technician got down into a grave pit to collect the swab sample of a dead body in Hiremagur village of the district.
A 70-year-old man had died in Hiremugadur village and his family informed taluk health officers through an Asha worker in the morning, saying the final rites would be conducted soon. However, health officers did not turn up for swab collection on time.
Finally, the family took the body to the graveyard, where the technician showed up donning a PPE kit, she collected the samples from the catacomb.
The lab technician, Shobha Channappanavar, who works with Savanur taluk hospital on a contract basis collected throat swab samples of a deceased man from his grave moments before his last rites were performed and this brave act of her’s has earned the wrath of villagers and her family members.
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