More staffers from Mumbai hospitals test coronavirus positive
While a technician from Bombay Hospital at MarineLines and 11 nurses from Bhatia Hospital at Grant Road testedpositive for novel coronavirus, four more nurses and twodoctors from Dadar-based Sushrusha hospital are also among thefresh cases, they said.
"We are tracing the high and low risk contacts of the(Bombay) Hospital staffer," said a senior official from A wardof the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
He, however, ruled out the need to seal the hospitalas the department where the technician was posted is locatedaway from the main hospital building.
According to sources in the BMC, the 11 staffers fromthe Bhatia Hospital included nurses, taking the total numberof personnel from the facility who have contracted theinfection to 25.
The civic body had already sealed the hospital afterfew nurses tested positive for the viral infection.
"The BMC administration has informed me that the total25 staffers including nurses tested positive at BhatiaHospital (so far)," said Arvind Dudhwadkar, the Shiv Senacorporator from the area.
Daksha Shah, deputy Executive Director, Health, BMC,did not respond to the queries about the fresh cases beingdetected at Bhatia Hospital and Bombay Hospital.
Another BMC official from the G-North ward said thatfour more nurses and two doctors from Sushrusha Hospital inDadar have tested positive for coronavirus.
Notably, after two nurses from the hospital testedpositive for the infection earlier last week, the civicauthorities sealed the hospital and put the doctors and nursesunder quarantine from Sunday.
Meanwhile, BMC authorities have shifted about 100nurses and staffers of Sushrusha Hospital to the hostel ofRuparel College from the Rajiv Gandhi sports complex inDharavi where they were quarantined, after they complainedabout poor living conditions at the facility.
Civic authorities have also written to the dean ofSushrusha hospital to conduct coronavirus tests of all itsstaffers at the cost of the hospital, an official said.
The civic body has already sealed a few majorhospitals like Jaslok, Wockhardt since the beginning of thismonth, after several staffers tested positive for the virus. KKNSK NSK