MUMBAI : A new age private hospital in the city has reported Covid-19 among several of its nurses and a couple of doctors. The hospital, Wockhardt, is located in Southern region of Mumbai. 26 nurses, including Malayalis, and three doctors tested positive for the virus. Blood samples from another 200 staffers here have been sent for testing.
3 of the hospital’s patients had died of coronavirus earlier - the source believed to have caused en masse infection among the nurses. There are currently 15 Covid infected persons including foreigners undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Most of those ill are Malayali nurses, given that Keralites form bulk of qualified nurses in the State. 200 of the 300 nurses at Wockhadt are Malayalis.
All of the infected staff are presently quarantined at the hospital and the management declared Wockhardt as containment zone i.e. cutting off the hospital’s access to and fro in the area. The Maharashtra govt responded to situation making arrangements to reach all of the hospital’s supply needs to the complex without anyone having to leave the premises.
According to reports a couple of nurses were diagnosed with the virus earlier, but the hospital failed to grasp the potential this held, resulting in the present scenario of wider infection among staff.
Meanwhile the pandemic is breaking seams round the state with latest data putting active cases in Maharashtra above 743 - up by 113 from Sunday total. 13 persons died from the disease on Sunday alone surging the state’s total Covid death to 45.
