Ghy: 60 Scribes Tested For Post-COVID Issues

A health camp was organized on Friday in an collaborative effort initiated by the Guwahati Press Club and Gauhati Medical College and Hospital that led to the screening of nearly 60 city based journalists for post COVID complications and other health-related issues.

Assistant professor of Medicine in GMCH, Dr. Ahmed Barek addressing the media said that the post COVID complications would be diagnosed at the earliest and cautioned the journalists to be careful and responsible while coming in contact with different persons.

On the other hand, Dr. Diganta Boragohain advised the scribes to take precautions until the vaccines arrive.

So far, Assam journalists Ashim Dutta and Dhaneshwar Rabha have succumbed to coronavirus.

Furthermore, in another previously conducted plasma donation camp over fifteen journalists who recovered from the virus donated their plasma.