A week after a 23-year-old resident doctor from KEM hospital in Parel died of dengue, another resident doctor, who tested positive for the same, was shifted to PD Hinduja Hospital in a critical condition on Monday evening.

According to Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD), Dr Vruj Durge, a resident doctor with KEM hospital's medicine department, was admitted in the hospital's medicine intensive care unit on Saturday. He later tested positive for dengue. His relatives decided to shift him to Hinduja hospital on Monday after his condition deteriorated and he developed acute respiratory distress syndrome, one of the complications of dengue.

Durge's friends in KEM hospital said he is in Hinduja hospital's ICU and still critical.

Apart from him, Dr Shashi Yadav from the paediatric medicine department and Dr Arvind Singh from the cardiology department too have tested positive for dengue. Both are in KEM hospital's ICU and critical.

"Dr Durge's relatives didn't want to take a chance and decided to shift him to Hinduja after his condition deteriorated," said a doctor from MARD.

According to sources in KEM hospital, there have been at least 10-15 doctors who have either tested positive for dengue or were suspected cases. Also, there were around 50 undergraduate and postgraduate doctors suffering from dengue in the last three months, they added.

Dr Shruti Khobragade, a third-year resident from KEM hospital's anaesthesia department, died of dengue on October 28, after which the KEM administration and BMC's pest control department sprang into action and started micro-mapping the hospital for aedes mosquito breeding spots on the campus.

Head of BMC's pesticide department Rajan Naringrekar said, "We have been checking each and every corner of the hospital for aedes mosquito breeding spots. Our officers visit the hospital every third day. Whatever spots were found have been destroyed. We have also given the administration a list of dos and don'ts."