The rising number of COVID-19 deaths in Ahmedabad continued to remain a concern for Gujarat with the district recording 31 out of the total number of 34 deaths in the state. The number of deaths in the state has gone up to 659.
In the figures of last 24 hours ending at 5 pm on Sunday, the state saw the death of one deputy mamlatdar in Ahmedabad Dinesh Rawal. The officer was in the hospital for the last fortnight and was on ventilator-support for the last couple of days. The Ahmedabad Collectorate has also reported 11 COVID-19 positive cases.
Ahmedabad district has recorded more than 67 per cent of the cases in Gujarat.
In the period mentioned, 391 cases were reported, taking the number of COVID-19 positive cases to 11380. Twenty-four hours saw 191 patients discharged, taking the number of people discharged to 4,499.
The day began with Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani ordering a high-level inquiry into the case of the body of a COVID-19 positive patient being found at a bus station. The body of a patient who had been discharged from the city's Civil Hospital was found at the Ahmedabad Bus Rapid Transit System station in Danilimda.
The report will be submitted in 24 hours.
Another instance of alleged carelessness also emerged from the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. A video went viral in which a COVID-19 positive patient,, aged around 60, was left unattended for hours together after he passed urine on the bed.
Opposition Congress in Gujarat has been alleging that the patients in the Civil Hospital are not getting proper treatment.
Meanwhile, another controversy surfaced at the Civil Hospital. A top doctor at the hospital has requested high capacity ventilators for the hospital. The doctor in a letter to the government is reported to have said that Dhaman-1, a ventilator, was not giving results as desired.
The ventilators have been developed at a cost of Rs 1 lakh by a Rajkot-based company. The company owner dismissed allegations that the ventilator had failed and said that the hospital needed high capacity ventilators.
AMC Commissioner Vijay Nehra transferred
Outgoing Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra | Vijay Nehra's Twitter
The state government on Sunday transferred Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra.
He has been made commissioner of Rural Development, Gandhinagar. His place has been taken by Mukesh Kumar, who is the in-charge commissioner.
Nehra had gone under isolation after two persons whom he had met tested positive for COVID-19. Though his test turned out to be negative, he was to complete the isolation period of 14 days and return to duty.
When Nehra went under isolation, the grapevine was that he was sidelined because he did not get along well with the elected wing and did not take them into confidence. According to sources, only a few days before Nehra went into isolation, a delegation led by Ahmedabad Mayor Bijal Patel had reportedly asked Rupani to remove Nehra.
After members of Tablighi Jamaat returned to Gujarat post congregation in Nizamuddin, Nehra had intensified surveillance and taken into confidence minority leaders and political leaders to get people tested.
He had also launched a campaign to save the seniors and tracking down superspreaders in form vegetable vendors, grocery store owners and milk vendors.
As part of the surveillance of the superspreaders by the team that has been appointed after he went in isolation, as many as 709 superspreaders were found to be COVID-19 positive in Ahmedabad in the last 10 days.
