Dinesh Kamath's news 'NMMC to make 3 new civic hospitals functional very soon' that was published in Newsband

NMMC to make 3 new civic hospitals functional very soon

By Dinesh Kamath

NAVI MUMBAI: Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation had done a yeomen job by coming up with three hospitals in Airoli, Belapur and Nerul. The civic body even got these hospitals inaugurated in November. But the hospitals are yet to become functional. The NMMC authorities kept on promising to make these hospitals function in a short time but then the municipal elections kept them so busy that they had no time to pay attention to these hospitals. Now that the elections are over the civic body is hurrying up with the work of providing the hospitals with all the necessary medical equipments and qualified doctors and para-medicos. They have now promised to make these hospitals functional from the beginning of June.

Once these hospitals become functional, there will be no need for people who reside far away from Vashi to bring their patients all the way to the NMMC Hospital located at Vashi. They will have wider choice. They can admit the patients to the hospital at Airoli, Belapur or Nerul which have reasonable number of beds. This will release the pressure that is felt by the staff of civic hospital at Vashi.

The process of hiring of medical staff and doctors, installing of medical gas pipelines, making available the CT scan facility etc is at the final stage and this time it appears that the civic body will keep its promise of making the hospitals functional from beginning of next month.