The initiative has faced criticism from the opposition, as the programme's viability extends only to the residents of Mumbai, excluding patients from outside the city.
The former Congress corporators said the tendering process of basic amenities in hospitals has been pending for the last year due to the laxity of the administration.
As per the EOW’s FIR, the alleged offences related to oxygen plants were committed between April 2021 and January 2022 at the Municipal Workshop in Byculla-East and at the site of the oxygen generation plants on the premises of nine hospitals of BMC.
With around 400 beds kept non-operational in PMC hospitals due to shortage of staff and facilities, patients are thronging the Sassoon General Hospital (SGH)