Health worker on COVID-19 duty dies in Bidar
Team Udayavani, Apr 7, 2020, 12:38 PM IST
Kolar: A health worker helping in COVID-19 treatment died in Mulbagal on Monday, April 6.
The deceased has been identified as Saravana M (35), a junior health assistant who was part of the COVID screening team at Hebbuni checkpost.
He is survived by his wife and two children.
Speaking with this regard nodal officer Jagadish said, Since he died on duty, his family may be eligible for Rs 50 lakh insurance meant for health workers involved in COVID-19 surveillance. But since his post mortem concludes that he died of myocardial infarction, we are not sure. We have sent his samples for COVID-19 testing,” he said
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