Doctor rues delay in BMC projects

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), in its latest budget, allocated Rs 3,700 crore to the department of health and also announced addition of beds, but its long-pending project for a new building at Harilal Bhagwati Hospital with 110 beds is still pending. The authority is uncertain when it would be functional even as the old building was vacated in 2013 for the construction. As per a Right to Information application filed by a doctor, the new building was supposed to start functioning by February 2016.
“We are still preparing the building. All the equipment is being placed so we can’t provide any date till now, but it would take more than three months to start,” said Krishnakumar Ganapat Pimpale, medical superintendent of the hospital who had replied to the RTI.