Four hundred pregnant women, availing the services of Millat nursing home in Jogeshwari West, have been left at the mercy of private hospitals for maternity care. Reason: the centre had to shut both its dialysis and gynaecology departments after a staffer tested positive last month. The administration has now requested the health department to let them restart the maternity services.

The nursing home administration has finally been able to restart the dialysis centre, which had to be shut down after a staffer working in the same department tested positive. About 252 kidney patients were left in the lurch due to the closure.