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New hospitals in the city to be made affordable to even economically weaker section, thanks to Municipal Commissioner

(Above) Municipal Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare

By Dinesh Kamath

NAVI MUMBAI: Municipal Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare had few days back come up with a brilliant idea of outsourcing equipments pertaining to investigation and diagnosis of three new hospitals. It will be the job of the private party to pay whatever will be the cost and also hire whichever doctors they wish while the corporation will provide the premises. This system will become convenient for the patients too. The equipments which will be outsourced are CT scan, sonography and X-ray. Care has been taken to see that the rates are affordable to even economically weak patient.

A resident of the city said, “We would like these new hospitals too to have a system like the one that exists in Vashi general hospital. Here investigation and treatment is done at a very cheap rate. There are good facilities for pregnant women under national health programmes. The rates of the hospital is very nominal and even the patients from outside the city are allowed to admit themselves in this hospital although at a slightly higher rate. Even dialysis is free of cost in this hospital. But the only drawback is the absence of CT scan but the patients who need CT scan can find it at the hospital closeby.  If these new hospitals are also made to function like the one at Vashi then the city residents will not have to crowd at Vashi Hospital whenever they need medical treatment.”