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BMC tells positive patient in Dharavi to isolate at home

35-year-old with kidney ailment is a high-risk patient, and lives in an SRA building of 90 flats, putting others at risk

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Medics making the rounds of Dharavi. Pic/Suresh Karkera

Medics making the rounds of Dharavi. Pic/Suresh Karkera

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been readying quarantine centres and acquiring hospitals for COVID-19 patients, but it seems it hasn't quite decided whom to let in. The 32-year-old wife of a COVID-19 positive patient from Dharavi has been running from pillar to post to get him to a hospital. The 35-year-old who requires dialysis, tested positive on May 1 but BMC officials allegedly advised her to quarantine him at home, as he is asymptomatic.

When she pointed out that they stay in a 180 sq ft house with senior citizen parents, they allegedly did not pay much heed. While the BMC maintains that asymptomatic patients are not hospitalised, the patient has become a potential threat not just to his family but to the whole SRA building with 91 flats, where they stay.

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