Employees Oppose PPP Model in Civic Hospitals

Private vendors will have their own staff and equipment, which will put limitations on us SENIOR DOCTOR, Bhabha Municipal Hospital, Bandra West

- Shreya Jachak

MUMBAI: On Tuesday, the Municipal Mazdoor Union (MMU) protested outside the civic-run Kasturba Hospital demanding that the BMC reconsider its decision to bring hospitals run by it under the public-private partnership (PPP) model. The civic body has issued tenders for this in two of its hospitals while a third one is in process.

On March 13, a 30-year tender for overall operations management of the 490-bed multispecialty Bhagwati Hospital in Borivali West was rolled out along with another tender for K B Bhabha hospital in Bandra West—the latter to run the superspecialty departments such as cardiology and MRI-CT scans. A tender for the operations of M T Agarwal municipal hospital is in process.