BMC had issued the notice claiming that as per the contract agreement, Seven Hills was to reserve 20 per cent of its beds for the poor patients.
Seven Hills Healthcare Private Limited (SHHPL), which runs a super specialty hospital in suburban Marol on Friday proposed to construct a separate wing with 300 beds and hand it over to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation as part of the agreement to reserve 20 per cent of the hospital services for poor patients.
"We are ready to construct a separate wing with 300 beds for treatment of the poor and needy patients. The special wing would be given to the civic body to run. Access would be given to Seven Hills' diagnostic machinery," SHHPL counsel Venkatesh Dhond told the Bombay High Court on Friday.
A division bench of Justice SA Bobade and Justice RD Dhanuka was hearing a petition filed by the super specialty hospital challenging the notices issued by the BMC in February last year asking them to vacate the nearly seven-acre premises allotted to them to run the hospital in Marol.
BMC had issued the notice claiming that as per the contract agreement, Seven Hills was to reserve 20 per cent of its beds for the poor and needy patients, who were referred there from civic-run hospitals.
"20 per cent of the hospital services were to be on par with a municipal hospital, so that poor patients could also acquire medical treatment," BMC counsel Ashutosh Kumbakoni argued.
The court on Friday however termed the hospital's proposal as a fair deal and directed SHHPL to submit the proposal to the corporation within a week. The corporation has to decide on the proposal within two weeks thereafter.
The bench also rapped the civic body for making a "mockery" of an earlier order passed by the high court, directing the BMC to grant a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to the hospital to mortgage the hospital building to acquire additional loan from banks.
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