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B Y L Nair Hospital
MUMBAI: The second coronavirus wave has claimed the lives of several children across city hospitals, particularly in March and April. The proportion of kids in need of hospitalisation and critical care, too, increased at tertiary care hospitals compared with the previous year.
At B Y L Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central, a referral centre for Covid-positive mothers and babies, there have been four deaths till April 30 out of 43 admissions. The hospital had seen four fatalities in all of 2020. Three of the four deaths were in infants while the fourth was an 11-year-old. Only one of them had an underlying health condition while a nine-month-old baby died after developing paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (PIMS). Covid claimed five paediatric lives at Parel’s Wadia Hospital between March and April this year as compared to three deaths in 2020. The hospital saw 76 admissions during the first peak in May-June 2020 as against 103 in March-April this year.
May 06, 2021, 15:21 IST
In the second wave of coronavirus infections in India, more children are being infected.
According to physicians, a majority of kids have mild symptoms
The age group zero to 20 years accounted for nearly 11.5 percent of the 56 lakh Covid-19 cases recorded in India between January 1 and April 21.
The Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children in Mumbai saw 150 cases of Covid-19 in the seven months from the start of the pandemic in India in February 2020 to August 2020, an average of 21 cases per month. According to the hospital s CEO Minnie Bodhanwala, the hospital has seen 90 cases in just two months this year.
SRCC Children’s Hospital diagnoses around 15-20 children with Covid-19 every day, these days. In the last wave in 2020, “children were hardly contracting the disease; the caseload was 10%-15% of what it is today”, she told
IndiaSpend. The youngest patient she has treated was four months old.
Nearly 11.5% of the 56 lakh Covid-19 cases reported between January 1 and
April 21 were in the age group zero to 20 years, government data show. This is just under the 12% of cases in this age group in all of 2020, but doctors say they are treating more children and adolescents with Covid-19 in this second wave because of the sheer number of cases in a shorter span of time.
Wadias to forsake executive roles, remain shareholders
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Non-family professionals will be mandated to drive growth and boost shareholder value and recently Jeh Wadia, group chairman Nusli Wadia’s younger son, stepped off executive roles from the boards of Go Air and Bombay Dyeing to be a non-executive director.
The Wadia group did not respond to ET’s request for comment.
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The Wadia family will stay as shareholders in the aviation-to-biscuits conglomerate and not hold any executive roles in group companies as part of a strategic decision taken by the promoters to drive growth and ensure better shareholder returns, a highly placed group official said. Non-family professionals will be mandated to drive growth and boost shareholder value and recently Jeh Wadia, group chairman Nusli Wadia’s younger son, stepped off executive roles from boards of GoAir and