Doctors comb measles-hit Govandi, inoculate 130 kids

A day after the BMC confirmed one death in the outbreak of measles in the city, hectic activity was seen in the worst-affected Govandi area on Thursday with 130 children vaccinated against the disease and civic health teams going door to door to check for children with the tell-tale signs of high fever and rashes.

Mumbai: A state health department team, too, visited Govandi in the run-up to a three-member central team’s visit on Friday. “We have advised 10-day door-to-door surveillance to pick up any suspected measles cases,” said a senior health official who visited the civic health post at Lotus Colony, the worst-hit locality where an 18-month-old died on October 28 due to measles. The last measles death in the city was in 2019.