30 of 324 beds will be available to those who can afford private hosp charges.
After waiting for decades, close to 15 lakh residents of Kandivli and adjoining areas in the western suburbs will soon have access to state-of-art public health facilities. Earlier known as the Centenary Hospital in Kandivili (West), the 324-bed hospital has been refurbished and rechristened Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Municipal General Hospital and will be inaugurated by Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on September 2.
The hospital has been renovated at the cost of Rs101.07 crore and has a built up area of 3.15 lakh square feet spread over three floors. “The construction of the new building commenced in 2006. The medical services will start in phases from September 2,” said Manisha Mhaiskar, additional commissioner (health), Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
According to civic health officials, this will be the first municipal hospital to have paid bed facilities. “Thirty beds have been reserved on payment basis. We have studied rate patterns for rooms in private nursing homes across wards. We will charge people who wish to pay for beds based on the average of what existing private nursing home in the area charge. This will be a great boon for the middle class, who find private hospitals to be expensive. The middle class did not prefer coming to public hospitals but now we will provide them state of art facilities in public hospitals at affordable rates,” Mhaiskar said.
BMC has also appointed multipurpose labour staff in the hospital, who are skilled to perform multiple duties starting from a ward boy to a lift man to an electrician.
The civic authorities have installed 350 CCTV cameras in the hospital for tighter security. A private agency has been hired to maintain hygiene of every floor and manage housekeeping staff. Separate beds have been reserved for elderly in the geriatrics ward, 10 beds have been reserved for chemotherapy patients, eight beds are dedicated to the dialysis centres and 10 beds are reserved for tuberculosis patients.
Also, the hospital is equipped with MRI and CT scan facilities and has special departments such as surgery, paediatrics, ENT, opthalmology, gynecology, obstetrics, psychiatry and a special burns ward. The patients will soon also have access to OPDs for dental care, skin care, antiretroviral therapy and immunisation,” said Dr Seema Malik, chief superintendent, BMC peripheral hospitals.
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