COVID-19: Women, children do not get facilities or proper care

Having been made aware of the problems they encounter, BBMP is trying to find solutions

Pregnant women and new mothers who have contracted COVID-19, especially those from lower income groups, are finding it difficult to get adequate care. Two pregnant women, one with a 11-month-old toddler, all of whom are COVID-19 positive and asymptomatic, struggled to find a facility where they could isolate themselves. They were admitted in a hospital for three days, but the staff wanted to discharge them as they were asymptomatic. The trio belong to the waste-picker community and are residents of Vinayaka Badavane community area, T.C. Palya, near K.R. Puram, where isolating themselves is difficult. Hasiru Dala, an organisation that works with the waste-picker community, tried to help them by checking if they could be admitted in COVID-19 Care centres (CCCs). However, they were told that since pregnancy is considered to be a co-morbidity, the women could not be admitted in CCCs.