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'Neglected' Mumbai nurses seek help of BMC boss
Updated On: 02 June, 2020 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Arita Sarkar
Several organisations together write to Iqbal Singh Chahal, bringing to his notice the plight of healthcare workers who contract COVID-19
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Nurses have to wait for up to nine hours to get admitted to COVID hospitals, the organisations said in the letter to BMC chief. Representation pic/Suresh Karkera
The nursing community has written to BMC chief Iqbal Singh Chahal, bringing to his notice the plight of the nurses who contracted the novel Coronavirus while treating other patients and are now being ignored by their own hospitals and authorities concerned.
Several organisations for nurses under Jan Swasthya Abhiyan on Monday raised their issues, which they claim were not addressed by the previous civic chief, Praveen Pardeshi. The letter, among several things, pointed to the lack of dedicated facilities for healthcare workers who have to wait six-nine hours to secure admission in a COVID hospital, "with no access to food or water, making them feel neglected and unwanted." The organisations claimed that the second swab test of infected healthcare workers isn't done even though ICMR protocol allows it, and also complained about unhygienic facilities and poor quality of care at COVID Care Centres (CCCs).
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