Marking a significant achievement, the civic-run BYL Nair Charitable Hospital has just completed its 1025th safe delivery for a woman infected by Covid-19 - and may walk into record books, excited officials said.The first such delivery of an .
Nair, nodal centre for Covid-positive new moms
MUMBAI: BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central achieved a remarkable feat by performing 1,001 deliveries of Covid-19-positive women possibly the first by any public-run institution in the country amid the pandemic.
The hospital, which has remained the city’s nodal centre for Covid-19-infected mothers-to-be, facilitated the births of 1,022 babies, including 19 twins and a set of triplets since last April.
The gynaecology department had swung into action in mid-April last year, five days before it was decided to convert Nair into a complete Covid centre. Hurriedly, an alternate labour room in the adjoining building was set up for Covid-positive months. Soon, though, the hospital realised they would require not one but two labour rooms, the second one for suspect mothers. In the months that followed, the hospital delivered women who travelled all the way from Vasai, Virar, Palghar, Raigad and some even from affluent families with privat
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The third phase of vaccination in Maharashtra took off on Saturday with only a small number of centres inoculating about a few hundred at each centre. Huge queues and confusion around appointments marked the experience on Day 1 of universal Covid-19 vaccination in Maharashtra. State capital Mumbai started vaccinations from around 2 pm at only five BMC-run centres, which had a target of 200 vaccinations per centre. BKC covid vaccination centre (CVC), Nair Hospital, Seven Hills Hospital, Cooper Hospital and Rajawadi Hospital were the only five spots that did vaccinations on Saturday. People started queuing up at Seven Hills from 8 am in the morning. Many people queued up at Nair Hospital even after their time slots were cancelled. They had managed to book appointments last night, but received cancellation messages on Saturday morning. Television channels reported that similar confusion plagued Pune s CVCs too.
The shortages-hit Dahisar Covid centre shifts patients on Monday
MUMBAI: With fewer Covid-19 tests conducted over the weekend, Maharashtra and Mumbai reported a dip in daily detections. The state added 58,924 cases and 351 fatalities on Monday, pushing the total caseload to 38.9 lakh and toll to 60,824.
A total of 2.2 lakh tests were conducted on Sunday as against the state’s highest-ever case tally of 68,637 from 2.7 lakh tests done on Saturday (test results take around 24 hours), according to the state government’s daily update. In Mumbai, 7,381 cases were detected from 36,556 tests done on Sunday. On weekdays, the city conducts an average 45,000 tests and for the last week, daily cases have hovered over 8,000-9,000.