Marking a significant achievement, the civic-run BYL Nair Charitable Hospital has just completed its 1025th safe delivery for a woman infected by COVID-19 and may walk into record books, excited officials said.
The first such delivery of an infant by a COVID-19 positive mother took place on April 14, 2020, at the height of the pandemic at the hospital run by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
“Of around 1,025 safe deliveries so far, there was one set of triplets, 19 twins and the remaining 984 were single bundles of joy whose first cries brought cheers to the lives of their anxious parents,” the hospital Dean & Director Dr Ramesh Bharmal told a news agency.
The achievement comes hand-in-hand with the Supreme Court’s observations this week patting the BMC’s handling of the COVID-19 situation and asking other states like Delhi to follow the ‘Mumbai model’.
The BMC attributes the success of Nair Hospital to the sheer dedication of the medical, para-medical and support teams at the hospital under the guidance of BMC Commissioner I.S. Chahal, Additional Municipal Commissioner Suresh Kakani, Dr Ramesh Bharmal, and other top officers.
Surjitt Sahani
