COVID-19 patient transported in motorbike in Alappuzha, probe ordered

The Health Department has launched a probe into an incident in which a COVID-19 patient was shifted to a hospital from a domiciliary care centre on a motorcycle at Punnapra in Alappuzha on Friday morn

The Health Department has launched a probe into an incident in which a COVID-19 patient was shifted to a hospital from a domiciliary care centre on a motorcycle at Punnapra in Alappuzha on Friday morning. The incident came to the light after the video of the seriously ill patient being transported on the bike by two PPE kit wearing persons went viral on social media. "He started to experience breathlessness around 9 a.m. As there was no ambulance or other facilities, volunteers took him to the Punnapra Cooperative Hospital on the motorbike of another COVID-19 patient," said Vishnu P., a COVID-19 patient at the domiciliary care centre who witnessed the incident.