Hospital staff protests outside Red Zone residential society amid blame-game on COVID-19 infection

Some staff members of a private hospital in Noida protested outside a residential society, whose residents have accused them of risking people with coronavirus as its two health care workers tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday.

Over three dozen staffers of the Felix Hospital in Sector 137 protested in the evening outside the Ajnara Daffodil, where a 41-year-old female resident was detected with the novel coronavirus infection on May 5, according to an official report.

A representative of the society, however, said it was not desirable for health care workers to assemble in that manner knowing well that the sector is a containment zone and the matter could have been resolved amicably.

D K Gupta, a doctor and chairman of Felix Hospital, said two of his staff members tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday and one of them, a nurse, had come in contact with the female patient in the residential society on April 27.

The nurse had gone to the society to attend to a third-stage ...