Mumbai: Forty hospital staffers, including doctors, nurses and non medical personnel at the Shatabdi Hospital, Kandivali, have been quarantined at the ESIC hospital. The move comes after they unknowingly came in contact with a corona patient admitted to the general ward for illness.
“One of the patients who was discharged last week was not corona-positive at the time of discharge; he returned with some other problem and was again in the general ward.
He may have contracted the infection in between, so there is a chance the doctors and staffers who were in contact with him may have been infected,” said Dr Pramod Nagarkar, medical superintendent, Shatabdi Hospital.
“As a precautionary measure we have quarantined the hospital staff and sent their samples to Kasturba for testing,” said a doctor from the hospital. Currently, the hospital has 90 isolation beds for corona cases. “Neither the hospital, nor any part of the hospital is sealed. Only new admissions and OPD services have been stopped,” said civic officials.
