Nair, nodal centre for Covid-positive new moms
MUMBAI: BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central achieved a remarkable feat by performing 1,001 deliveries of Covid-19-positive women possibly the first by any public-run institution in the country amid the pandemic.
The hospital, which has remained the city’s nodal centre for Covid-19-infected mothers-to-be, facilitated the births of 1,022 babies, including 19 twins and a set of triplets since last April.
The gynaecology department had swung into action in mid-April last year, five days before it was decided to convert Nair into a complete Covid centre. Hurriedly, an alternate labour room in the adjoining building was set up for Covid-positive months. Soon, though, the hospital realised they would require not one but two labour rooms, the second one for suspect mothers. In the months that followed, the hospital delivered women who travelled all the way from Vasai, Virar, Palghar, Raigad and some even from affluent families with privat