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Mumbai: 3 Doctors, 26 Nurses Test Positive For Covid-19 Amid Allegations Of Hospital Not Taking Precautions
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Three doctors and 26 nurses working at the Wockhardt hospital in Mumbai have tested positive for Covid-19 in over a week amid allegations of the hospital failing to contain the spread of the infection by not quarantining the colleagues of those initially infected, Times of India has reported.
This development has resulted in the BMC declaring the hospital a containment zone which means that no one will be allowed to enter or leave the hospital until everyone present inside tests negative for Covid-19.
It has been speculated that a 70-year-old patient with a heart ailment who tested positive for coronavirus is the source of the infection. The two nurses who attended to him also tested positive for Covid-19.
Subsequently other nurses began testing positive and they were admitted to various hospitals in the city. The hospital staff has alleged that the infection spread rapidly as a result of the hospital not quarantining colleagues of infected nurses. They also also alleged that the nurses were not given Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) despite tending to suspected Covid-19 patients.
The Mumbai civic authorities have set up a team to probe the reason for such a rapid spread in infection with the Additional Municipal Commissioner Suresh Kakani being quoted as saying that, “It is unfortunate that such a big cluster of cases have come from a medical facility. They should have taken precautions”.
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