The committee formed by the Thane Municipal Corporation to find out how the identities of two senior COVID-19 patients got exchanged at the civic-run COVID hospital in Thane has concluded that the hospital in-charge, a doctor and four nurses were negligent. Late on Thursday, as per orders by Additional Municipal Commissioner Ganesh Deshmukh, the nurses were dismissed and the doctors were transferred.

The three-member committee, headed by a special officer deputed at the Thane Municipal Corporation for COVID-19, Ranjeet Kumar, found that Bhalchandra Gaikwad was brought in to the Thane COVID-19 hospital on June 29 at 10.05 pm.