At St George Hospital the rush of bodies being brought in did not end till late Thursday evening.
At St George Hospital the rush of bodies being brought in did not end till late Thursday evening.
The toll, which was 67 on Thursday morning, rose to 71 by evening, with ambulances continuing to bring in more bodies. Volunteers helped shift 93 seriously injured patients to JJ Hospital in Byculla. “At present we have eight injured patients, out of which one is critical,” said Dr C Gaikwad, medical superintendent of St George Hospital.
According to sources, the hospital was very ill-equipped to deal with an emergency of this magnitude. There was a shortage of medicines and basic items like cotton at the hospital. Fresh stock of medicine arrived at the hospital at 4am, a source said. But Gaikwad said the hospital was “neither understaffed nor was there any dearth of medicine”.
Once the injured were taken care of, a shortage of white cloth to cover the dead was also felt at the post-mortem cells of government and municipal hospitals. “Many of the bodies are in terrible condition. It would be traumatic for their families to see their loved ones in such a condition. We have bought several yards of white cloth ourselves,” said a relative who had come to claim the body of Zahir Matin, 25, a Taj employee. The municipal corporation sought aid from a private NGO to make up for the shortage.
The death toll in JJ Hospital is 16, while 135 people have been injured. Two of the injured are said to be critical. The hospital organised an impromptu blood donation camp last night to meet the shortage of blood. “We have opened up eight wards for the victims. A team of 150 doctors have been pulled in from all the hospitals, including civic and private hospitals,” said Shashi Pawar, disaster management cell, JJ group of hospitals. “About eight chefs and trainee chefs from Taj are feared to be dead. They were all working in the main kitchen at Taj,” said one of the doctors.
At GT Hospital, where four police inspectors including encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar were brought dead, 20 patients are battling for their lives and 12 people have died. “We lost two of our employees as well as two security guards stationed at Cama in the firing at Cama Hospital,” said AV Kulkarni, medical superintendent. At Bombay Hospital, 63 patients have been admitted so far, and six people, including a Japanese, have died. Some patients have been shifted to Nair, KEM, Harkissondas and Jaslok hospitals.
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