Breach Candy Hospital

BMC

Saifee Hospital

containment zone

93 staffers including doctors, nurses and technicians will be tested.After a nurse and a technician fromtested positive for the virus, theon Wednesday asked the hospital not to admit any new patients. A cook from the hospital who lives in Worli’s Jijamata Nagar had also tested positive last week.BMC officials said that 93 staffers including doctors, nurses and technicians will be tested as they might have come in contact with the three staffers who have tested positive. Until the test results come back, BMC has asked the hospital not to admit new patients.The nurse’s samples were taken at least two days ago and by the time the positive report came on Monday night, she had reached her hostel in Mahim.Around six more staffers have been quarantined and their swabs will be taken. Previously, a technician from Breach Candy had tested positive. He had been on duty the day the cardiac surgeon from, who was infected, had operated on a patient. The hospital’s cardiac facility that had shut on March 27 is admitting only emergency cases.“We will take a call on putting the hospital in aif more samples test positive. So far we have not decided on it,” said a senior civic official.