{"id":12296,"date":"2020-08-05T10:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T10:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12296"},"modified":"2020-08-05T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T10:19:06","slug":"kolkata-75-year-old-leaves-for-covid-19-test-goes-missing-for-24-hours-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12296","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata: 75-year-old leaves for Covid-19 test, goes missing for 24 hours | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>KOLKATA: A <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/75-year-old\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_75-year-old\" frmappuse=\"1\">75-year-old<\/a> former NTPC official, who was driven out of his paying guest accommodation in Kalighat on Monday after he developed <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/viral-fever\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_viral-fever\" frmappuse=\"1\">fever<\/a> and dysentery \u2014 both <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Covid-symptoms\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Covid-symptoms\" frmappuse=\"1\">Covid symptoms<\/a> \u2014 went <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/missing\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/missing\" frmappuse=\"1\">missing<\/a> for more than 24 hours following a Covid test at AMRI hospitals. Snehomoy Banerjee was finally found on Tuesday evening, when he returned to Kalighat, visibly sick and shaken and unable to tell about his whereabouts. His Covid report, however, came negative and he is now undergoing treatment for dysentery and exhaustion at a city hospital. <br \/>The man\u2019s daughter, a schoolteacher in Gurugram, had posted on social media about her father being missing, when friends alerted cops who started to look out for the elderly man and scanned the entire stretch between AMRI <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Dhakuria\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Dhakuria\" frmappuse=\"1\">Dhakuria<\/a> and Kalighat with his photograph and CCTV grabs. But finally he was spotted by the landlord who saw the man sitting outside the house on Tuesday evening and alerted his daughter and cops. <br \/>\u201cThe last 24 hours have been the most anxious moments I have ever spent in my life. The fact that my father had a tendency to forget simple things lately made me wonder if I would at all be able to find him out sitting so far away. With direct flights between Delhi and Kolkata not operational, I could not even fly down. But I am indebted to Kolkata Police and the hospital authorities for their cooperation,\u201d said Swarnali Chaudhury, his daughter. According to Chaudhury, her father, who lived at a paying guest accommodation on Kalighat Jadu Bhattacharya Lane ever since his wife passed away in 2013, was told by the landlord to shift somewhere else as he was sick. \u201cI had advised him to shift to my in-laws\u2019 place at an apartment in Gariahat. When he went there, the security guard thermal checked him and didn\u2019t let him in as he had mild fever. They asked him to get a Covid-negative certificate. I asked some relatives to accompany him but none came forward and he went for the test all by himself at Dhakuria AMRI,\u201d said Chaudhury. <br \/>Chaudhury says since he went to the hospital on Monday afternoon, his phone was switched off and the family couldn\u2019t contact him any further. \u201cWe tried all our relatives\u2019place and everywhere else. Then I wrote on social media following which Kolkata Police officers contacted me,\u201d said Chaudhury. <br \/>AMRI hospital officials said some of their functionaries were also alerted about the post after which they also started following it. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/75-yr-old-leaves-for-test-goes-missing-for-24-hrs\/articleshow\/77359425.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: A 75-year-old former NTPC official, who was driven out of his paying guest accommodation in Kalighat on Monday after he developed fever and dysentery \u2014 both Covid symptoms \u2014 went missing for more than 24 hours following a Covid test at AMRI hospitals. Snehomoy Banerjee was finally found on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596622747_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}