Hospitals opened for defaulting college

MUMBAI, March 16: The D Y Patil Medical College at New Mumbai owes the Brihanmumbai Municipal CorporationRs 30 crore to. Yet the BMC has decided to allow it to use clinical facilities at two civic hospitals.

The medical college has been using the facilities at Rajawadi Hospital since 1992. Under the terms of its agreement with the BMC, it had agreed to spend Rs five crore on hospital upgradation and pay service charge at the rate of Rs 12 per day per bed. Following default on its payment, the BMC also served a show-cause to the college.

However, the House in its meetings this week okayed a proposal by the Patil medical college to use clinical facilities at Bhagwati Hospital at Borivli and Centenary Hospital at Kandivli. Standing committee chairman Sardar Tara Singh, the lone member who opposed granting the permission, said the college should be asked to first clear its dues. Last week the decision was held up when he walked out in a huff. Mayor Vishakha Raut and other leaders, however, did not oppose theproposal.