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In Bhilwara, ‘India’s Italy’: ‘It’s all in the past now… We were just doing our job, treating patients’
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“What the people said seemed appropriate to them at the time. It’s all in the past now,” says Dr Alok Mittal, leaning back in his chair inside a small examination room at Brijesh Bangar Memorial Hospital (BBM) in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara.
A senior consultant physician and the medical superintendent at BBM Hospital, Mittal made national headlines in the early days of the pandemic in March when he, along with 16 other doctors and hospital staff tested positive for Covid-19. When local health authorities discovered that Mittal had examined several patients in that period, he received criticism from all sections, with one international publication asking if the outbreak at BBM hospital will turn Bhilwara into “India’s Italy”. Rajasthan Health Minister Raghu Sharma had said he would have the hospital investigated ....

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