G.T. Hospital, which was the first to receive the injured as the Himalaya Bridge collapsed, was to lose three staff members to the accident. Three nurses on their way for night duty were among six persons who lost their lives when the overbridge collapsed on Thursday evening.
The 29 injured persons from the accident site were admitted to the two nearest State-run hospitals, St. George and GT, while one was taken to Bombay Hospital.
Two of the nurses, Apoorva Prabhu, 35, and Ranjana Tambe, 40, were declared brought dead at G.T. Hospital with severe multiple injuries. Nurse, Bhakti Shinde, 40, succumbed during treatment at St. George Hospital. All the three were residents of Dombivali. “They may have taken the same train to reach their workplace,” said a distraught Rajendra Shinde, Ms. Shinde’s husband.
Vijay Bhagwat, a male nurse at the hospital, was also injured and is under treatment in the same hospital.
The nurses who were responding to the disaster broke down when the doctors failed to revive Ms. Prabhu and Ms. Tambe.
