The Bombay High Court on Thursday expressed serious concern over waterlogging at the civic run KEM hospital during heavy rain in the metropolis earlier this week.

A vacation bench of Justice Gauri Godse and Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan directed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to inspect the hospital immediately and suggest remedial measures. The bench said KEM at a time used to be considered a top hospital and urged the corporation to come up with a solution immediately. “There has to be some solution. A hospital can’t be flooded like this,” the judges said. 

Recalling the hospital’s reputation, the court noted, “KEM hospital was topmost in India. People from all over used to come. See the condition now. Something has to be done. KEM management cannot allow such waterlogging. Hospital has to be hygienic. Basic cleanliness has to be there.” The issue was brought to the court’s notice by advocate Mohit Khanna in a public interest litigation taken up suo motu by the court two years back on the lack of infrastructure and medical facilities at state-run hospitals.