A day after country's first monkeypox case was confirmed in a Kollam native, the District Medical Office has come under fire for major lapses in diagnosis and contact tracing.
According to Collector Afsana Parveen, the patient travelled to a private hospital in an autorickshaw and later hired a taxi to reach Government Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. Speaking to the media on Friday, Ms. Parveen added that the DMO could not trace the details of the auto and taxi drivers even after two days.
The Kollam DMO had earlier issued a statement according to which the patient, accompanied by his mother, had travelled to the private hospital in a paid taxi from the airport. It also said that he was sent to the Infectious Disease Department of Government Medical College Hospital, Kollam.
