Close to 150 nursing staff, paramedics and other workers at Bandra's K B Bhabha Hospital staged a protest on Wednesday. The medical demanded the health department to quarantine them after a woman who passed away at the facility tested positive for COVID-19.
The nurses, paramedics and other workers at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)-run hospital demanded immediate quarantine, suspecting possible exposure to coronavirus.
According to reports, the 45-year-old woman who died Tuesday night tested positive for coronavirus. The hospital staff said that the woman was admitted to the hospital’s general ward on Saturday and died after serious breathing difficulty on Tuesday night.
“We all are at serious risk because we were handling a COVID -19 patient for the last four days. We were totally unaware about her COVID-19 history and hence we are demanding to be quarantined for our own safety,” one of the medical staff, Bharat Katare told HT.
Another medic said that not only them but their immediate family members must also be quarantined on a priority basis. He asked why should they put the life of their near and dear ones in danger. He also stated that two private hospitals in the city had quarantined their employees after possible exposure of medical staff members and the civic body should do the same.
The health staffers further demanded that such suspected patients should be treated separately keeping in the mind the possible exposure of COVID-19 to all medical staffers.
Another complaint from the staff was that they were working without adequate precautions. They alleged that the BMC has not been supplying enough personal protective equipment (PPE) and the available PPEs are used by senior staffers.
However, the BMC has refuted the allegations of shortage and said it is supplying enough PPE to each and every hospital.
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