In a big operation, the Mumbai Police and BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation busted five allegedly bogus 'senior' doctors operating in the sprawling slums of Govandi-Shivajinagar areas of north-east Mumbai, officials said here on Thursday.
In a big operation, the Mumbai Police and BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation busted five allegedly bogus senior doctors operating in the sprawling slums of Govandi-Shivajinagar areas of north-east Mumbai, officials said here on Thursday.
The 2-storey house at Shivaji Nagar collapsed in the early hours of Friday
MUMBAI: Four members of a family, including a senior citizen, died in their sleep after their ground-plus-two-storey house at Shivaji Nagar in Govandi crashed early on Friday. Seven other people from a neighbouring structure were injured in the mishap too.
The dead include Neha Shaikh (35), Shamshad Shaikh (45), Mokar Shaikh (80) and Farin Shaikh (22). The Shaikhs owned a furniture shop on the ground floor of the structure and they lived upstairs. They had moved in around a year ago.
Officials said while Neha and Mokar were declared brought dead at Rajawadi Hospital, Shamshad was brought in, in a critical condition and died a few hours later.
Govandi and adjoining areas are known for the 132-hectare Deonar dumping ground, which is in the backyard of thickly populated shanties with a warren of narrow bylanes. A part of the M-East Ward, this section is the poorest part of the city and also one of the worst-hit by Covid-19 during the first and second wave of coronavirus pandemic.
India: Responding to the COVID-19 crisis and other urgent needs
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The second wave of COVID-19 is reaching extremely alarming levels in India, with 329,942 daily new infections reported on May 10. MSF has scaled up its COVID intervention in Mumbai, in Maharashtra state, where the increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases have devastated the health care system and overwhelmed health care providers. Mumbai is a densely populated city, with almost 42 percent of the population living in low-income housing with poor hygiene facilities -putting them at very high risk of infection.
Health care workers are already stretched to their limits, and face increasing numbers of cases and people who need hospital beds. MSF is concerned about the risk of infection to health workers, which could further reduce India s capacity to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.