A kidney care clinic on Bariatu Road, where Jharkhand’s fourth Covid-19 patient had gone for dialysis recently, was sealed on Tuesday and its medical and paramedical employees were sent to RIMS to undergo tests for the novel coronavirus.

The 58-year-old woman from Hindpiri had gone to the clinic for her dialysis on Saturday. Her coronavirus report came positive on Monday.

Ranchi Sadar sub-divisional officer (SDO) Lokesh Kumar Mishra said the clinic was run by a noted nephrologist, Dr Ashok Kumar Baidya.

“Now we will have to check all those who underwent treatment at this clinic as well as medical and paramedical staff,” he said.

Dr Baidya, who spoke over phone under home quarantine, said his paramedical employees had been quarantined at the clinic.

“Today around 27 staffs, who feared they had come in direct contact with the coronavirus-positive lady, were sent for tests,” Dr Baidya said.

He explained that the lady had no symptoms of Covid-19, but when he came to know she was from Hindpiri where Jharkhand’s first novel coronavirus positive case was detected from, he had advised the elderly lady to get tested.

“I advised her to go for the coronavirus test at RIMS on April 3 as a precautionary measure. She went there the same day and turned up at my clinic on April 4 saying her report will be given on April 5. As the patient was under our treatment for the last two months and urgently needed dialysis, she got it on April 4,” Dr Baidya said.

Asked how the lady went to him before the test report, Dr Baidya said: “My sources at RIMS said that she was kept in isolation but somehow managed to come out.”

At RIMS, no one spoke on how the woman came out of the isolation ward.

Dr Baidya, however, said he was happy that he could persuade his patient to go for the coronavirus test. “She had no symptoms, and without my urging she may not have gone for the test.”