Only 11 per cent of the private hospitals and a few government- and corporation-run hospitals have submitted their disaster management plan to the civic body in the past one year, shows the official database. The BMC had sought the plan following a deadly fire at a hospital in Bhandara last year. 

The BMC said it will send reminders to remaining 89 per cent private hospitals, and it has asked the civic hospitals to submit the plan soon. A month after a fire killed 10 newborns in the District General Hospital in Bhandara city in January last year, the BMC, in February 2021, asked all the private and public hospitals in the city to submit their disaster management plan. The aim was to avert such incidents in the city.