Mumbai Bridge Collapse: Surgeries postponed at GT hospital, employees pay homage to nurses

Mumbai | Saturday | 16th March, 2019

Summary:

After losing three staff nurses, none of the hospital staff were in a frame of mind to work. Besides shifting one patient to Sir JJ Hospital for neurotrauma, few other injured patients from both St George's Hospital and GT hospital underwent surgeries for fractures. A day after the Himalaya bridge collapse incident, only a few emergency surgeries were performed to injured patients at the Gokuldas Tejpal (GT) Hospital. Dr Sagar Sakale from Bombay Hospital, added, “Three patients are admitted in the hospital. As per the medical authority, post lunch, all the staff nurses wanted to visit the homes of deceased nurses for condolence, due to which they postponed other surgeries which can be delayed..