At least eight healthcare workers from Delhi’s Lady Hardinge Medical College’s paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) tested positive for coronavirus while a 45-day-old baby reportedly died of Covid-19.
“There are six healthcare workers who have tested positive including 2 doctors, 3 nurses and one lab technician. The hospital administration has quarantined 30 staff members from the pediatric department as precautionary measures and the pediatric ward is being sanitised,” hospital sources claimed.
The hospital has reported the second-highest number of COVID-19 infected healthcare workers after Delhi State Cancer Institute which reported 25 of its heath workers infected with Coronavirus.
“A resident doctor who was working in the paediatric ICU was tested positive first. His contacts of doctors and other health care personnel were traced thereafter. Two nurses tested positive on Saturday and five others have tested positive on Sunday,” a doctor said on the condition of anonymity.
With this, more than 60 healthcare workers in Delhi have been infected with life- threatening coronavirus.