MUMBAI (AFP) - A major private hospital in Mumbai was shut to new patients and declared a coronavirus containment zone on Monday (April 6) after 26 nurses and three doctors tested positive, an official said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MUMBAI - A major private hospital in Mumbai was shut to new patients and declared a coronavirus containment zone on Monday after 26 nurses and three doctors tested positive, an official said.
Mumbai city authority spokesman Vijay Khabale-Patil told AFP that the Wockhardt Hospital has been declared a"containment zone" after the cases were confirmed.The United Nurses Association in Mumbai accused hospital management of failing to protect staff by refusing to let them wear appropriate safety gear.
"They were thinking that if the staff wore protective gear, family members of Covid-19 patients would get scared," he told AFP.He added that Wockhardt waited too long to carry out tests on its staff, thereby increasing the possibility of infections spreading.
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