BMC to discontinue outsourcing doctors for its peripheral ICUs
Hindustan TimesMumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to stop outsourcing manpower for the intensive care units of its 16 peripheral hospitals. HT Image The trust is one of the agencies that the civic body hired in 2018 and was providing manpower for ICUs in three of its peripheral hospitals, including MT Agarwal Hospital, Mulund. BMC had also set up a committee under the chief medical superintendent of peripheral hospitals to review its decision of outsourcing manpower for ICUs. There are other regulations too in BMC because of which doctors prefer going to private hospitals than work with BMC.” While the committee is yet to submit its final report, BMC has dedicated 100 ICU beds in SevenHills Hospitals, Marol, for critically ill patients admitted to its 16 peripheral hospitals. The BMC health official said 16 patients from peripheral hospitals were transferred in less than 24 hours to SevenHills Hospital.
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