In a bid to bar the entry of drunk doctors and staffers, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) corporator wants civic hospitals to have breathalysers and blood alcohol tests. L-Ward corporator Dr Saeeda Khan, who is also a member of the BMC's health committee, sent a letter to Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta on September 27, asking for the same. Khan sent the letter after receiving numerous complaints about inebriated hospital staff, and upon learning last week about alcohol bottles being found at one of the biggest BMC-run hospitals.

Khan alleges that in several BMC-run hospitals, doctors, officers, and other staff come for duty in an inebriated state. She also got to know recently about discarded bottles of alcohol being found in one of the biggest civic-run hospitals. This prompted her to send the letter to Mehta.