A Covid vaccination camp at Khadayata Bhavan Hall, Vile Parle(East), on Sunday
MUMBAI: Newborns infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus have a higher risk of adverse outcomes and death, a study by city-based doctors and scientists has found. The risk of sepsis was 4.09-fold higher and the need for a ventilator rose 3.67 times in infected neonates compared to babies who did not have Covid-19.
The findings are from a retrospective analysis of 524 babies born to Covid-positive mothers at BYL Nair Hospital between April 14 and July 31 last year. About 6.3% (33) of the 524 neonates were found positive for SARS-CoV-2 by the RT-PCR test. The clinical outcomes of the 33 babies were compared with 490 uninfected ones by experts from Nair and the ICMR-National Institute of Research in Reproductive Health in Parel. The study is one of the first to document how Covid impacts newborns. “The infected neonates are at a higher chance of developing complications and require intense management, but the
COVID-hit moms’ cradle for safe delivery
IANS / Updated: May 7, 2021, 06:00 IST
BMC-run
COVID +ve mothers; likely to enter in record book
MUMBAI 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
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 .
B Y L Nair Hospital
MUMBAI: The second coronavirus wave has claimed the lives of several children across city hospitals, particularly in March and April. The proportion of kids in need of hospitalisation and critical care, too, increased at tertiary care hospitals compared with the previous year.
At B Y L Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central, a referral centre for Covid-positive mothers and babies, there have been four deaths till April 30 out of 43 admissions. The hospital had seen four fatalities in all of 2020. Three of the four deaths were in infants while the fourth was an 11-year-old. Only one of them had an underlying health condition while a nine-month-old baby died after developing paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (PIMS). Covid claimed five paediatric lives at Parel’s Wadia Hospital between March and April this year as compared to three deaths in 2020. The hospital saw 76 admissions during the first peak in May-June 2020 as against 103 in March-April this year.
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